MAMP vs XAMPP Comparison in 2025

MAMP

7Alternatives

XAMPP

12Alternatives

Overview

About MAMP

A free local server designed for web developers

MAMP (Macintosh, Apache, MySQL and PHP) deploys a local server environment in a matter of seconds on your computer. MAMP...

About XAMPP

An open-source cross-platform web server that is used primarily for local development

mamp.info

apachefriends.org

MAMP categories

Web Servers

XAMPP categories

Web Servers

Alternatives

MAMP and XAMPP have 3 alternatives in common. Among them are lighttpd, Gunicorn, Microsoft IIS. When comparing MAMP and XAMPP, you can also check the following apps.

MAMP alternatives

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lighttpd

A lightweight and high-performance event-driven web server

Gunicorn

Gunicorn (Green Unicorn) is a WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX, fast clients and sleepy applications

Microsoft IIS

Internet Information Services is a web server for Microsoft Windows

Atera

An all-in-one remote IT monitoring and management solution for MSPs

Splunk

Log Management

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XAMPP alternatives

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Microsoft IIS

Internet Information Services is a web server for Microsoft Windows

Gunicorn

Gunicorn (Green Unicorn) is a WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX, fast clients and sleepy applications

lighttpd

A lightweight and high-performance event-driven web server

Puma

A Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism

Nodal.js

A web server for Node.js that was built to make developer's life easier

All XAMPP alternatives