# Gunicorn

WSGI HTTP server for UNIX that runs Python web applications with a pre-fork worker model.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/gunicorn/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-29
Listed since: 2026-10-29

## Record

### Links

- home: https://gunicorn.org
- repository: https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn
- docs: https://gunicorn.org/install/
- forum: https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/discussions

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Benoît Chesneau
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2010
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: web-server
- hosting: python
- language: python
- runtime: python
- runtimeMin: python 3.10
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: pip

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 26
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-09-06

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 10717
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 372
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- name: https://gunicorn.org (read 2026-10-29)
- urls: https://gunicorn.org (read 2026-10-29)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/benoitc/gunicorn (read 2026-10-29)
- urls: https://gunicorn.org/install/ (read 2026-10-29)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/benoitc/gunicorn/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-29)
- maintainerType: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/benoitc/gunicorn/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-29)
- category: https://gunicorn.org (read 2026-10-29)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/benoitc/gunicorn (read 2026-10-29)
- runtime: https://gunicorn.org/install/ (read 2026-10-29)
- runtimeMin: https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/blob/26.2.2/pyproject.toml (read 2026-10-29)
- installMethod: https://gunicorn.org/install/ (read 2026-10-29)
- installMethod: https://gunicorn.org/install/ (read 2026-10-29)
- installMethod: https://gunicorn.org/install/ (read 2026-10-29)
- installMethod: https://gunicorn.org/install/ (read 2026-10-29)
- installMethod: https://gunicorn.org/install/ (read 2026-10-29)
- runsAs: https://gunicorn.org/deploy/ (read 2026-10-29)
- license: https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-29)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-29)
- firstRelease: https://pypi.org/pypi/gunicorn/json (read 2026-10-29)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/releases (read 2026-10-29)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/releases (read 2026-10-29)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/benoitc/gunicorn (read 2026-10-29)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/benoitc/gunicorn/contributors (read 2026-10-29)

## Notes

Gunicorn is a WSGI HTTP server for UNIX that runs Python web applications, and it is written in Python. It serves the application through a pre-fork worker model. It installs with pip or pipx, as a system package, or from a Docker image on GitHub Container Registry. It runs as a long-lived process: the [deployment guide](https://gunicorn.org/deploy/) advises against its daemon mode when a process monitor manages it.

## Worth knowing

The deployment guide strongly recommends running Gunicorn behind a proxy server.

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