Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to NGINX Unit

NGINX Unit

A dynamic web and application server with Go, PHP, Python, Perl, and Ruby support.

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Summary

The top open-source alternatives to NGINX Unit are Apache Tomcat, Phusion Passenger, and Gunicorn. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Apache Tomcat Landing Page
1

Apache Tomcat

An open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Open Source #Web And Application Servers #Java 17 social mentions
Phusion Passenger Landing Page
2

Phusion Passenger

Phusion Passenger is a multi-language (Ruby, Python, Node) web & app server which can integrate into Apache and Nginx
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web Servers #HTTP/2 Web Server #Web And Application Servers 1 social mentions
Gunicorn Landing Page
3

Gunicorn

Gunicorn is a Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Development Tools #Web Servers #Web And Application Servers 33 social mentions
Payara Server Landing Page
4

Payara Server

Payara Server is a fully supported, developer-friendly, open source application server. Innovative, cloud-native, optimized for production deployments. Jakarta EE & MicroProfile compatible.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
#Containers And Microservices #Web Servers #Web And Application Servers
ActiveJ Landing Page
5

ActiveJ

Alternative Java platform built from the ground up. It is minimalistic, boilerplate-free, and lightning-fast. ActiveJ has minimum third-party dependencies, yet features a full stack of technologies with an async programming model and powerful DI.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Marketing Videos #Web Frameworks #Web And Application Servers
Puma Landing Page
6

Puma

A concurrent web server for Ruby.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web Servers #HTTP/2 Web Server #Web And Application Servers 3 social mentions
Apache HTTP Server Landing Page
7

Apache HTTP Server

Apache httpd has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Development Tools #Web Servers #Web And Application Servers 66 social mentions
nginx Landing Page
8

nginx

A high performance free open source web server powering busiest sites on the Internet.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web Servers #Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy #Web And Application Servers 60 social mentions
mavimax.com
9

Mavimax EnduroX

Distributed transactions middleware, application server and Oracle Tuxedo alternative
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- €6500.0 / One-off (Single operating system instance)
#Web Servers #Message Queue #Web And Application Servers
Fuxedo.io Landing Page
10

Fuxedo.io

An Open Source alternative to Oracle Tuxedo
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
- Free Trial
#Web Servers #HTTP/2 Web Server #Web And Application Servers
Apache ZooKeeper Landing Page
11

Apache ZooKeeper

Apache ZooKeeper is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source server which enables highly reliable distributed coordination.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Development Tools #Web Servers #Web And Application Servers 32 social mentions
appserver.io Landing Page
12

appserver.io

appserver.io is a multithreaded application server for php written in php.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web Servers #Web And Application Servers #Java 1 social mentions