🆚 OAuth vs. OpenAPI
- 📈 OAuth is much more popular than OpenAPI.
- 🌎 OAuth is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 OpenAPI is more popular in Kuwait, Qatar, and San Marino.
Type
About
OAuth is an open standard authorization protocol that allows applications to obtain limited access to user accounts without sharing passwords across web, mobile, and desktop environments.
It uses token-based authorization with access and refresh tokens, lets users grant specific permissions to applications such as access to profile data or contacts, and is widely adopted by online service providers such as Google,
Facebook,
Microsoft, and
GitHub.
OpenAPI is a specification language for defining HTTP APIs, typically written in YAML or
JSON.
It enables automated generation of interactive documentation (via tools such as Swagger UI and Redoc), schema-based request and response validation, automatic creation of client SDKs and server stubs in multiple programming languages, and integration into CI/CD pipelines.
Headquarters
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Uruguay in the Standards category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Brazil in the Standards category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Indonesia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Korea in the Standards category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Argentina in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Denmark in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Peru in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in the Netherlands in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in Chile in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in Bulgaria in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ About This Data
- 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.
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