Best Application Server Software

Compare the Top Application Server Software as of April 2025

What is Application Server Software?

Application server software provides a platform for deploying, managing, and running applications, typically for web or enterprise environments. These servers handle the backend logic of applications, facilitating the connection between client devices and databases or other services. Application servers often provide middleware services such as security, transaction management, and messaging, enabling the smooth execution of applications. They are designed to support multiple users simultaneously and ensure high availability, scalability, and performance of applications. This software is commonly used in environments where complex, data-intensive applications are developed, such as in e-commerce platforms, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and customer relationship management (CRM) systems. Compare and read user reviews of the best Application Server software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Google Cloud Run
    Google Cloud Run is a fully managed service designed for deploying and scaling applications in containers, providing a seamless experience where developers can focus solely on writing code rather than managing the infrastructure. It automatically scales applications based on incoming traffic, ensuring efficient resource usage while handling the complexities of server management in the background. The platform supports a wide range of languages and frameworks as long as the applications are containerized, making it a flexible choice for developers. New customers receive $300 in free credits to spend on Cloud Run, offering a risk-free opportunity to test and scale containerized applications without upfront costs. This makes Cloud Run an attractive option for those looking to move to the cloud or try containerized solutions for the first time. Additionally, the service ensures high availability with automatic scaling and load balancing, allowing developers to deploy applications.
    Starting Price: Free (2 mil requests/month)
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    Linx

    Linx

    Twenty57

    A powerful iPaaS platform for integration and business process automation. Linx is a powerful platform for building custom integrations at scale. The platform provides enterprise-grade capability and unparalleled flexibility to cater to a wide range of integration use cases for today’s growing businesses, including application integration, data synchronization, data migration, automations, and rapid API development and management. Linx is a low-code, desktop-based iPaaS that enables organizations to connect their cloud and on-premise applications, data sources.
    Starting Price: $599 per month
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    JBoss EAP

    JBoss EAP

    Red Hat

    Red Hat® JBoss® Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) delivers enterprise-grade security, performance, and scalability in any environment. Whether on-premise; virtual; or in private, public, or hybrid clouds, JBoss EAP can help you deliver apps faster, everywhere. JBoss EAP 7 is built to provide simplified deployment and full Jakarta EE performance for applications in any environment. Whether on-premise or in virtual, private, public, and hybrid clouds, JBoss EAP features a modular architecture that starts services only as they are required. JBoss EAP 7 is built for performance and flexibility in modern application environments. Its modular architecture and services-driven set of components reduce scale-out times and provide flexibility for applications deployed in different environments. JBoss EAP allows developers to be meet line-of-business demands. Support for Jakarta EE and its web-based frameworks, such as Spring, Spring Web Flow, Spring WS, Spring Security, etc.
    Starting Price: $8000
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    RasPiEsi
    RasPiEsi is The World's Smallest Open Source ERP Application Server powered by Epesi and running on Raspberry Pi Zero with 1 core and 512MB RAM only. Part of Epesi ENS - the first FOSS Enterprise Nervous System. Epesi BIM on LLMP stack: - Linux - Lighttpd - MariaDB - tuned - PHP 7.4 FPM + memcached and ZRAM neofetch, mc, ncdu added and updated 77 packages on November 4, 2023 for version 1.1 ("Józiu") RasPiEsi is the smallest possible Epesi Node I was able to build with the smallest RAM usage of only 133MB! Thanks to the excellent DietPi distro this tiny server runs Epesi surprisingly well especially on a fast SD card. It should run unmodified on any Raspberry Pi - from the lowest end $5 RPi Zero with no WiFi and 1 CPU and 512 MB of RAM (used to create this disk image), to the high end RPi 4. Tested fine on RPi 3 - unmodified, just swapped between units! MIT License • Copyright (c) 2024 by Janusz Tylek and Karina Tylek
    Starting Price: $0
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    Appwrite

    Appwrite

    Appwrite

    Build your entire backend within minutes with just a few lines of code using the frameworks and languages you love. Allowing you to focus on design and innovation instead of tedious and repetitive backend tasks. Products Appwrite Cloud provides you with: - Authentication: 30+ login methods, support for teams, roles, and user labels - Databases: Never paused, fast in-memory caching, advanced permission models, relationships support - Storage: File encryption at rest and transit, built-in image transformation capabilities, advanced compression with WebP/Brotli support - Functions: Automatic deployment from GitHub - Messaging: SMS, email, and push notification support - Real-time: Unlimited subscriptions By utilizing Appwrites’ features, you save time and ensure your products are stable and secure for your end users. With Appwrite, you always own your data, so you never have to fear vendor lock-in.
    Starting Price: $15 per month, per member
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    Microsoft IIS

    Microsoft IIS

    Microsoft

    Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows® Server is a flexible, secure and manageable Web server for hosting anything on the Web. From media streaming to web applications, IIS's scalable and open architecture is ready to handle the most demanding tasks.
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    VMware tc Server
    tc Server is a Web application server based on open-source Apache Tomcat. It preserves the best of Tomcat and adds many mission-critical operational capabilities that are unavailable in the open-source product. tc Server harnesses the power of traditional JEE architectures and eliminates their complexity and performance drawbacks, making it easier, faster, and more cost-effective to build and run cloud-ready applications. With its lean architecture and small memory footprint, tc Server requires significantly fewer resources than conventional servers, which allows for greater server density in virtual and cloud environments.
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    GigaSpaces

    GigaSpaces

    GigaSpaces

    Smart DIH is an operational data hub that powers real-time modern applications. It unleashes the power of customers’ data by transforming data silos into assets, turning organizations into data-driven enterprises. Smart DIH consolidates data from multiple heterogeneous systems into a highly performant data layer. Low code tools empower data professionals to deliver data microservices in hours, shortening developing cycles and ensuring data consistency across all digital channels. XAP Skyline is a cloud-native, in memory data grid (IMDG) and developer framework designed for mission critical, cloud-native apps. XAP Skyline delivers maximal throughput, microsecond latency and scale, while maintaining transactional consistency. It provides extreme performance, significantly reducing data access time, which is crucial for real-time decisioning, and transactional applications. XAP Skyline is used in financial services, retail, and other industries where speed and scalability are critical.
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    IBM WebSphere Application Server
    A flexible, security-rich Java server runtime environment for enterprise applications. IBM WebSphere Application Server accelerates application delivery with a highly reliable Java Enterprise Edition-based runtime environment. It supports microservices and standards-based programming models designed to help you modernize at your own pace, gain visibility across workloads, analyze enterprise applications and advance your journey to Kubernetes. IBM WebSphere Application Server is a flexible, secure Java server runtime environment for enterprise applications. Deploy and manage applications and services regardless of time, location or device type. Integrated management and administrative tools provide enhanced security and control, and support for multicloud environments lets you choose your deployment method. Continuous delivery capabilities and services help you to respond at the speed of your business needs.
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    Payara Enterprise

    Payara Enterprise

    Payara Services Ltd

    Jakarta EE & MicroProfile compatible, supported application servers for production and containerized deployments. Monthly releases, bug fixes, and patches. Rolled into Payara Enterprise products making Payara Server the best option for production Jakarta EE (Java EE) applications and Payara Micro the best option for containerized Jakarta EE applications. Payara Migration & Support engineers assist customers with Payara Server or Payara Micro during development projects before going to production, or provide assistance with the application server migration process. Raise tickets for bugs, incidents or questions related to Payara Server or Payara Micro, including any general questions you may have about configuration, deployment, security, monitoring and troubleshooting. Exclusive access to monthly releases of Payara Server and Payara Micro including crucial fixes and patches. New features are added once they are stable and ready for production use.
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    JEUS

    JEUS

    TmaxSoft

    Don’t settle for the ordinary security, performance, throughput and cost of your current web application framework. JEUS 8 is the first web application server that is JAVA EE 7 Certified. JEUS is a platform for developing, executing and managing applications in the web environment. It can quickly and easily implement cloud environments and execute large transactions. WebtoB is a powerful and stable next-generation web server that overcomes the structural problems of existing web servers. WebtoB provides enhanced security, error handling and massive-scale transaction processing. Together these products improve performance by sharing memory and eliminating the network traffic required when two products are deployed on two servers. Allow for rule-based, round-robin and dynamic load balancing. Deliver high availability and stability with domain architecture and dynamic clustering.
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    Simple Application Server
    Simple Application Server is a new generation computing service for stand-alone application scenarios. It provides one-click application deployment and supports all-in-one services such as domain name resolution, website publishing, security, O&M, and application management. This optimizes the user experience of setting up a simple application and makes it easier for entry-level users to use cloud computing products. Provides various types of application images, such as WordPress, LAMP, Docker, Plesk, and cPanel images, and allows you to use out-of-the-box applications without uploading or installing applications. Provides a clean operating system with no applications installed and allows you to install applications based on your business requirements. OS images are suitable for users familiar with operating systems and application environment configurations. Allows you to create custom images, use custom images to create multiple simple application servers.
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    Rocky Linux

    Rocky Linux

    Ctrl IQ, Inc.

    CIQ empowers people to do amazing things by providing innovative and stable software infrastructure solutions for all computing needs. From the base operating system, through containers, orchestration, provisioning, computing, and cloud applications, CIQ works with every part of the technology stack to drive solutions for customers and communities with stable, scalable, secure production environments. CIQ is the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux, and the creator of the next generation federated computing stack. - Rocky Linux, open, Secure Enterprise Linux - Apptainer, application Containers for High Performance Computing - Warewulf, cluster Management and Operating System Provisioning - HPC2.0, the Next Generation of High Performance Computing, a Cloud Native Federated Computing Platform - Traditional HPC, turnkey computing stack for traditional HPC
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    SAP NetWeaver
    Gain the tools, Web services, and application server capabilities you need to support seamless application, data, and system integration with SAP NetWeaver. Empower users and IT teams to define, change, and control decision logic. Apply semantically rich and declarative data models to enable conceptual thinking. Integrate processes across applications and organizational boundaries with a rich set of build-in functions for all domains with code pushdown capabilities. Extend SQL and cut complexity when connecting users to software – from social and collaboration platforms to mobile devices and Web applications – in real-time. Provide a socially oriented, highly interactive, and browser-based user experience on every device.
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    WebOTX

    WebOTX

    NEC Corporation

    WebOTX Application Server thoroughly incorporates online transaction processing (OLTP) technology proven for mainframes, as well as many features for minimizing the effects of failures and maintaining stable system operation.
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    uCosminexus Application Server
    uCosminexus Application Server ensures stable system operation by using a flow control function that tightly controls the number of concurrent processes in the Web application according to the contents to be processed. This function controls the number of requests by providing a queue for each unit of business logic (URL). This prevents the server from slowing down because of insufficient resources.
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    Magic xpa

    Magic xpa

    Magic Software

    The Magic xpa solution enables rapid creation of cross-platform business applications for desktop, web and mobile, so you can take advantage of new business opportunities quickly and on-demand. Rapid app development and delivery is made possible with Magic xpa’s low-code platform, visual designer interface and component-based architecture. Powered by an In-Memory Data Grid (IMDG), Magic xpa is the perfect solution for you to develop high-performance, self-healing, scalable apps. Magic xpa’s unique metadata-driven approach keeps your apps up to date with technological advances, eliminating the need for constant redevelopment.
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