🆚 OpenResty vs. Phusion Passenger

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 OpenResty is much more popular than Phusion Passenger.
🌎 OpenResty is more popular in the United States, China, and Korea.
🌍 Phusion Passenger is more popular in Luxembourg, Andorra, and Palestine.

Type

Web server

About

OpenResty is an Nginx distribution that bundles the LuaJIT interpreter to run Lua scripts directly inside the web server.

It embeds Lua, a lightweight scripting language, into Nginx's event-driven architecture, enabling high-performance dynamic request handling, asynchronous I/O, API and microservice development, traffic control, caching, authentication, and logging.

Phusion Passenger a fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js.

Headquarters

Millbrae, California, United States

Apeldoorn, Netherlands

Website

openresty.org #161,345

phusionpassenger.com #147,836

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Free version ✔️Open source

Passenger Enterprise$43.32+/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The OpenResty web server is 18 times more popular than Phusion Passenger.

Total websites

Market share

Web Servers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

OpenResty is more popular in the United States, China, and Korea, while Phusion Passenger is more popular in Luxembourg, Andorra, and Palestine.

United States

China

Korea

Netherlands

Russia

Germany

Slovakia

United Kingdom

Czech Republic

Vietnam