Web frameworks · comparison
Express vs Play
Express is used on 216,124 sites, 92 times as many as Play (2,359 sites).
In Web frameworks, Express ranks #2 and Play #12 by number of sites.
From Jul 2026 to Oct 2026, Express grew 0.1% and Play held steady.
No site in our index runs both Express and Play.
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Express
expressjs.com
- Sites
- 216,124
- Share of tracked sites
- 1.41%
- Rank in Web frameworks
- #2
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +0.1%
Pl
Play
www.playframework.com
- Sites
- 2,359
- Share of tracked sites
- 0.01%
- Rank in Web frameworks
- #12
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +0.04%
Sites using both
0
sites run Express and Play
of Express sites0%
of Play sites0%
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Site counts and ranks come from our crawl of the web; the change compares the monthly adoption snapshots both technologies have.