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
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Closest alternative
HAProxy

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01 · 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.

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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.

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  1. 01
    HAProxy haproxy.org 2 trackers

    HAProxy - The Reliable, High Perf. TCP/HTTP Load Balancer

    Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer

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  2. 02
    Traefik traefik.io English 1 tracker

    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.

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  3. 03
    Envoy proxy envoyproxy.io English 1 tracker

    Envoy proxy - home

    service proxy

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  4. 04
    caddyserver.com English 2 trackers

    Caddy - The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS

    Caddy is a powerful, enterprise-ready, open source web server with automatic HTTPS written in Go

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  5. 05
    HAProxy Technologies haproxy.com English 2 trackers

    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.

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  6. 06
    Varnish varnish-cache.org English No trackers

    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.

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  7. 07
    squid-cache.org Top 10K No trackers

    squid : Optimising Web Delivery

    proxy server and web cache daemon

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  8. 08
    Socket.IO socket.io English No trackers

    Socket.IO

    JavaScript library for realtime web applications

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  9. 09
    git-scm.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Git

    distributed version control system

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  10. 10
    OpenLDAP openldap.org Top 10K No trackers

    OpenLDAP, Main Page

    The Open Source for LDAP software and information. Home of OpenLDAP.

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  11. 11
    Drupal drupal.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Client Challenge

    free and open-source web content management system

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  12. 12
    Angular angular.dev English No trackers

    Home • Angular

    The web development framework for building modern apps.

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  13. 13
    NixOS nixos.org English No trackers

    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.

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  14. 14
    Node.js nodejs.org Top 10K English No trackers

    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.

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  15. 15
    traefik.me No trackers

    traefik.me

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  16. 16
    AMP ampproject.org Top 1K English No trackers

    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.

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  17. 17
    Svelte svelte.dev English No trackers

    Svelte • Web development for the rest of us

    Web development for the rest of us

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  18. 18
    Docusaurus docusaurus.io English 1 tracker

    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.

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  19. 19
    React react.dev English 1 tracker

    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.

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  20. 20
    MediaWiki mediawiki.org Top 10K English No trackers

    MediaWiki

    free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation

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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

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

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