# Tengine

High-performance web server and reverse proxy based on nginx, originated by Taobao, with added features for high-traffic websites.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/tengine/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-30
Listed since: 2026-10-30

## Record

### Links

- home: https://tengine.taobao.org
- repository: https://github.com/alibaba/tengine
- docs: https://tengine.taobao.org/documentation.html

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
- maintainerType: company
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2011
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: web-server
- hosting: binary
- language: c
- runtime: binary
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: nginx

### 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: source build (./configure, make, make install)

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: BSD-2-Clause

### Releases

- currentMajor: 3
- latestReleaseDate: 2023-11-06

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 13412
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 97
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- name: https://tengine.taobao.org/ (read 2026-10-30)
- urls: https://tengine.taobao.org/ (read 2026-10-30)
- urls: https://github.com/alibaba/tengine (read 2026-10-30)
- urls: https://tengine.taobao.org/documentation.html (read 2026-10-30)
- maintainer: https://github.com/alibaba/tengine/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-30)
- category: https://github.com/alibaba/tengine/blob/master/README.markdown (read 2026-10-30)
- basedOn: https://tengine.taobao.org/ (read 2026-10-30)
- language: https://github.com/alibaba/tengine (read 2026-10-30)
- runtime: https://github.com/alibaba/tengine/blob/master/README.markdown (read 2026-10-30)
- runsAs: https://github.com/alibaba/tengine/blob/master/README.markdown (read 2026-10-30)
- installMethod: https://github.com/alibaba/tengine/blob/master/README.markdown (read 2026-10-30)
- installMethod: https://github.com/alibaba/tengine/blob/master/README.markdown (read 2026-10-30)
- installMethod: https://github.com/alibaba/tengine/blob/master/README.markdown (read 2026-10-30)
- license: https://github.com/alibaba/tengine/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-30)
- licenseModel: https://tengine.taobao.org/ (read 2026-10-30)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/alibaba/tengine/releases/tag/3.1.0 (read 2026-10-30)
- latestReleaseDate: https://tengine.taobao.org/changelog.html (read 2026-10-30)
- firstRelease: https://tengine.taobao.org/changelog.html (read 2026-10-30)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/alibaba/tengine (read 2026-10-30)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/alibaba/tengine/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-30)

## Notes

Tengine is a web server and reverse proxy based on nginx, and its [documentation](https://tengine.taobao.org/documentation.html) says most configuration options match nginx's. It is built from C source with configure and make, and each release also comes as RPM, Debian and Alpine packages and as a container image.

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