Gunicorn
WSGI HTTP server for UNIX that runs Python web applications with a pre-fork worker model.
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 advises against its daemon mode when a process monitor manages it.
Worth knowing
The deployment guide strongly recommends running Gunicorn behind a proxy server.
Identity
- Status
- Active
- Maintainer
- Benoît Chesneau4
- Maintained by
- Individual4
- First release
- 20108
Rendering and deploy
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-29: name, links, Categories
gunicorn.org - 2026-10-29: links, Written in, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/benoitc/gunicorn - 2026-10-29: links, Runtime, Install with
gunicorn.org/install/ - 2026-10-29: Maintainer, Maintained by
raw.githubusercontent.com/benoitc/gunicorn/master/LICENSE - 2026-10-29: Minimum runtime
github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/blob/26.2.2/pyproject.toml - 2026-10-29: Runs as
gunicorn.org/deploy/ - 2026-10-29: License, License model
github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/blob/master/README.md - 2026-10-29: First release
pypi.org/pypi/gunicorn/json - 2026-10-29: Current major version, Last release
github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/releases - 2026-10-29: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/benoitc/gunicorn/contributors