🆚 p5.js vs. PixiJS
- 📈 PixiJS is twice as popular as p5.js.
- 🌎 PixiJS is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Germany.
- 🌍 p5.js is more popular in Finland and New Zealand.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
PixiJSType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
p5.js is an open-source 
JavaScript library for creating interactive 2D and 3D graphics and visualizations.
PixiJS is a rendering library with WebGPU/WebGL support for creating rich, interactive graphics and cross-platform applications and games.
Headquarters
New York, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #262
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #244
Animation › Rank #24
Animation › Rank #21
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The PixiJS JavaScript library is 2.2 times more popular than p5.js.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Animation
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
PixiJS is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Germany, while p5.js is more popular in Finland and New Zealand.
United States
Japan
Germany
Italy
United Kingdom
Spain
France
Australia
Netherlands
Greece
Awards
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in the United States in the Animation category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in Germany in the Animation category.
- ⬆️ 245th most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 250th most popular in the United States in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Japan in the Animation category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in Italy in the Animation category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in the United States in the Animation category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Germany in the Animation category.
- ⬆️ 161st most popular in Japan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
PixiJS is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and blogs and wiki, while p5.js is more commonly used on software and hardware, education and reference, and non-profit, advocacy and NGO sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Games
Fashion/Beauty
Entertainment
Travel
Software/Hardware
Marketing/Merchandising
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Babylon.js🗃️ 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 3,531,795 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.