benoitc/gunicorn
gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX, fast clients and sleepy applications. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
99/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 99
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 5.0
- age_days: 6120
- days_rel: 9
- days_push: 9
- n_releases_24m: 13
Adoption not part of the score
10660 stars · 1855 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Gunicorn is a Python WSGI HTTP server for UNIX using a pre-fork worker model, broadly compatible with WSGI and ASGI frameworks like Django, Flask, and FastAPI. It offers multiple worker types (sync, threads, gevent, ASGI), graceful process management, and beta HTTP/2 support.
Use cases
- serve a Django or Flask app in production
- run a FastAPI ASGI application behind nginx
- deploy a Python web app in Docker
- handle concurrent requests with async gevent workers
- gracefully reload a Python web application without downtime
- serve Python web apps on UNIX with a lightweight server
When to choose
- you need a battle-tested production WSGI/ASGI server for Python on UNIX
- you want simple, lightweight deployment behind nginx
- you need flexible worker types (sync, threaded, async) for different workloads
When to avoid
- you need a Windows-native server (Gunicorn is UNIX-only)
- you want a fully-featured internet-facing server with keep-alive for direct exposure rather than a proxy in front
- you need stable HTTP/2 support (still beta)
Facets
service · maturity stable
http-server web-framework middleware web-development backend developer-tools python wsgi asgi pre-fork production-server django flask fastapi gevent unix linux macos docker web-server
6 sources
- readme: https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn · fetched 2026-08-28 · 67a409379503
- homepage: http://www.gunicorn.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4e373cfc2222
- site_page: https://gunicorn.org/quickstart · fetched 2026-08-29 · 2177913b106f
- site_page: https://gunicorn.org/install · fetched 2026-08-29 · b23ce3e0485c
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/gunicorn/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · 7948aabe897a
- site_page: https://gunicorn.org/faq · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9a54b332dc7f
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| benoitc/gunicorn | main | 99 |
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