Unicorn vs NGINX Comparison in 2025

Unicorn

14Alternatives

Unicorn

NGINX

16Alternatives

Overview

About Unicorn

Unicorn is a tool in the Web Servers category

About NGINX

A high performance free open source web server

Nginx (engine x) is a high performance open source web server powering the biggest web sites on the Internet.

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Unicorn categories

Web Servers

NGINX categories

Alternatives

Unicorn and NGINX have 10 alternatives in common. Among them are Caddy, Perfect, Harp, Puma, Sanic, Nodal.js. When comparing Unicorn and NGINX, you can also check the following apps.

Unicorn alternatives

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XAMPP

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

Microsoft IIS

Internet Information Services is a web server for Microsoft Windows

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

Sanic

A Python web server and web framework that’s written to go fast

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NGINX alternatives

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lighttpd

A lightweight and high-performance event-driven web server

Microsoft IIS

Internet Information Services is a web server for Microsoft Windows

HAProxy

A high performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer

Traefik

A leading open-source reverse proxy and load balancer

Caddy

An Efficient Web Server with Automatic HTTPS

All NGINX alternatives