🆚 Leaflet vs. OpenLayers
- 📈 Leaflet is much more popular than OpenLayers.
- 🌎 Leaflet is more popular in the United States, France, and Germany.
- 🌍 OpenLayers is more popular in Bulgaria.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
LeafletType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
Leaflet is an open-source 
JavaScript library for creating mobile-friendly interactive maps on websites and web applications.
It supports tile and vector layers, markers, popups, GeoJSON, touch gestures, animated zooming and panning, custom controls, and hundreds of plugins.
OpenLayers is an open-source, feature-packed library for creating interactive maps on the web.
Headquarters
Kyiv, Ukraine
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #54
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #179
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Leaflet JavaScript library is 9 times more popular than OpenLayers.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Leaflet is more popular in the United States, France, and Germany, while OpenLayers is more popular in Bulgaria.
United States
France
Germany
Italy
Spain
United Kingdom
Poland
Japan
Netherlands
Czech Republic
Awards
- ⬆️ 31st most popular in France in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 39th most popular in Latvia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 40th most popular in the Czech Republic in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 41st most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 44th most popular in Austria in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 73rd most popular in Bulgaria in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 109th most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 112nd most popular in France in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 134th most popular in Switzerland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 135th most popular in Poland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Leaflet is more popular than OpenLayers in all market segments.
Business
Travel
Marketing/Merchandising
Public Information
Real Estate
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Blogs/Wiki
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.