nginx.org
nginx
Who runs nginx, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest web server software alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- HAProxy
Measured from nginx’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit nginx01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs nginx
nginx nginx.org
Wikidata: open source web server and a reverse proxy server
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What nginx tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 20 alternatives below has fewer; 8 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on nginx’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to nginx
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to nginx, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
HAProxy - The Reliable, High Perf. TCP/HTTP Load Balancer
Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer
Very close - 02
Unified Control Plane for APIs, Models, and Agents | Traefik Labs
Eliminate fragmentation and unify governance for any workload, anywhere. Traefik is sovereign-by-design, infra-as-code, composable, and memory safe.
Very close - 03
Envoy proxy - home
service proxy
Very close - 04
Caddy - The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS
Caddy is a powerful, enterprise-ready, open source web server with automatic HTTPS written in Go
Close - 05
HAProxy Technologies | Powering the World's Busiest Applications
Simplify, scale, and secure modern applications, APIs, and AI services in any environment. HAProxy Technologies is the company behind HAProxy.
Very close - 06
Varnish Cache - An open-source HTTP accelerator with native TLS, built for the cloud-native era
Varnish is a powerful, flexible HTTP accelerator that speeds up web applications by caching content and optimizing delivery.
Very close - 07
squid : Optimising Web Delivery
proxy server and web cache daemon
Very close - 08
Socket.IO
JavaScript library for realtime web applications
Very close - 09
Git
distributed version control system
Close - 10
OpenLDAP, Main Page
The Open Source for LDAP software and information. Home of OpenLDAP.
Close - 11
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Very close - 12
Home • Angular
The web development framework for building modern apps.
Very close - 13
Nix & NixOS | Reproducible builds and deployments
Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.
Close - 14
Node.js — Run JavaScript Everywhere
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
Close - 15 traefik.me No trackers
traefik.me
Close - 16
AMP - a web component framework to easily create user-first web experiences - amp.dev
Whether you are a publisher, e-commerce company, storyteller, advertiser or email sender, AMP makes it easy to create great experiences on the web. Use AMP to build websites, stories, ads and emails.
Close - 17
Svelte • Web development for the rest of us
Web development for the rest of us
Very close - 18
Build optimized websites quickly, focus on your content | Docusaurus
An optimized site generator in React. Docusaurus helps you to move fast and write content. Build documentation websites, blogs, marketing pages, and more.
Very close - 19
React
React is the library for web and native user interfaces. Build user interfaces out of individual pieces called components written in JavaScript. React is designed to let you seamlessly combine components written by independent people, teams, and organizations.
Very close - 20
MediaWiki
free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
Close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles nginx’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones nginx uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what nginx adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 2 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 38 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to nginx’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx/1.31.3
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=FnbM63M8trsWPaAVXzpX1ycy4deAdB_OaXh694KtdFU
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 14/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on nginx.org 7/20
- Google Analytics · not on nginx.org 5/20
- Google Workspace · not on nginx.org 5/20
- Netlify · not on nginx.org 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on nginx.org 4/20
- Algolia · not on nginx.org 4/20
- Vercel · not on nginx.org 4/20
- Fastly · not on nginx.org 4/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on nginx.org 3/20
- Next.js · not on nginx.org 3/20
- React · not on nginx.org 3/20
- Google Fonts · not on nginx.org 3/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on nginx.org 2/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on nginx.org 2/20
- Mailchimp · not on nginx.org 2/20