🆚 Kestrel vs. Nginx

📈 Nginx is much more popular than Kestrel.
🌍 Nginx is more popular in all countries.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Kestrel

Nginx

Type

Web server

About

Kestrel is an open-source, cross-platform web server for ASP.NET Core that can serve HTTP requests on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

It uses an event-driven, high-performance architecture to handle many concurrent connections, supports HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, and WebSockets, provides HTTPS support, and integrates closely with the ASP.NET Core middleware pipeline and configuration system.

Nginx is a lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy.

It supports serving static files, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, SSL/TLS termination with SNI, proxying and load balancing for HTTP, TCP and UDP traffic, and caching of FastCGI/uwsgi/memcached responses.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Website

learn.microsoft.com

nginx.org #37,555

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Free version ✔️Open source

NGINX Plus Enterprise Edition$3,500+/year

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Nginx web server is 240 times more popular than Kestrel.

Total websites

Market share

Web Servers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Nginx is more popular than Kestrel in all countries.

United States

Japan

Germany

Russia

United Kingdom

China

Netherlands

France

Spain

Italy

Awards

⭐ 5th most popular in Georgia in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Turkey in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Iran in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 8th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Brazil in the Web Servers category.

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Caching category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Web Servers category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Caching category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Caching category.
🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Web Servers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Nginx is more popular than Kestrel in all market segments.

Business

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Internet Services

Entertainment

Travel

General News

Software/Hardware

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#30

#91

#205

#253

#1,584

Name

Rank

#17

#18

#21

#38