Best Application Server Software

Compare the Top Application Server Software as of October 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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    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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    Plesk

    Plesk

    Plesk

    The complete set of features to build, secure and run. Everything you'll need to effortlessly build your projects, secure against vulnerabilities and automate your day-to-day tasks - on one simple dashboard. Add domains and subdomains and move them between subscriptions. Configure DNS and DNSSEC. Secure all your domains with the new SSL It! extension. Horde & RoundCube webmail on Plesk for Linux / Windows. Automatically set up Outlook & Thunderbird clients with mail auto-discover plus SNI support. Move databases between subscriptions and find out which database is linked to which website. Now with MariaDB as the database server for customer websites. You can become more productive than ever before with the all-improved File Manager, now including additional mass uploading and file search abilities. Plesk is a hosting control panel with simple and secure web server, website and web apps management tools. It is specially designed to help web professionals.
    Starting Price: $12 per month
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    Switchover
    We help companies in every industry to accelerate their software development processes. Our clearly arranged feature flag solution allows you to switch your features on and off at any time. Use it for User Targeting, A/B Testing, Canary Releases, Experimenting and everything else you can think of.
    Starting Price: 0,-EUR
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    NGINX
    NGINX Open Source: The open source web server that powers more than 400 million websites. NGINX Plus is a software load balancer, web server, and content cache built on top of open source NGINX. Use NGINX Plus instead of your hardware load balancer and get the freedom to innovate without being constrained by infrastructure. Save more than 80% compared to hardware ADCs, without sacrificing performance or functionality. Deploy anywhere: public cloud, private cloud, bare metal, virtual machines, and containers. Save time by performing common tasks through the built‑in NGINX Plus API. From NetOps to DevOps, modern app teams need a self‑service, API‑driven platform that integrates easily into CI/CD workflows to accelerate app deployment – whether your app has a hybrid or microservices architecture – and makes app lifecycle management easier.
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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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    NGINX Unit
    An universal web app server that combines several layers of the typical application stack into a single component. NGINX Unit simplifies the application stack for web apps and APIs by combining several layers of the typical stack into a single component. NGINX Unit is a universal web app server, intended as a building block for any web architecture regardless of its complexity, from enterprise-scale deployments to your pet's home page. It is equally suited to simplifying modern microservices environments as it is to modernizing legacy and monolithic applications. NGINX Unit was created by the original NGINX team on an all-new, open-source codebase. The architecture incorporates insights from over a decade of running the world’s most popular web server. Unlike the NGINX web server, NGINX Unit uses a multi-process, multi-threaded architecture. The NGINX web server is often deployed as a reverse proxy in front of web applications. NGINX Unit can run the application code natively.
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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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    eApps

    eApps

    eApps

    Enterprise-grade "virtual data center" platform for admin, deployment and operation of advanced web services. For multiple servers, complex deployments, geo-spanning, DR/HA configurations, and more. Latest spec Hypervisors and fast, expandable SSD block storage. Fast, solid platform for websites, web apps, and web services. Supports large, custom-sized virtual servers, adjustable at any time. Handles heavy workloads using the latest spec Hypervisors and fast, expandable SSD block storage. Next-generation platform for development, rapid deployment, and operation of critical apps. Superior Vertical/Horizontal autoscaling. Strong Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, Node.js, Golan, Docker, and Kubernetes support. Our platforms have included, and optional, services that are designed to ensure security, performance, uptime, and worry-free operation. We offer custom solutions for your requirements. Let us solve your backup, VPN, high uptime, and data protection needs.
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    TidalScale

    TidalScale

    TidalScale

    TidalScale software-defined servers represent a breakthrough in computing. TidalScale’s software solution “glues” your commodity servers together so that they function as a single system. The software accomplishes this by aggregating and virtualizing the CPU cores, memory, and I/O of multiple physical servers, and then presenting them as a single “software-defined server” to the operating system. Now with TidalGuard™ technology, individual servers can be hot-swapped allowing them to be upgraded or repaired all while the mission-critical workload continues to run. And all of this requires no changes to either the application or the operating system! With built-in patented TidalGuard™ technology, software-defined servers help detect and avoid over 90% of hardware failures via hot-swapping of a failing server with a spare. In the rare case that a server does fail, a software-defined server can immediately restart using the spare in a matter of minutes.
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    IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    WebSphere Hybrid Edition is a flexible, all-in-one solution for WebSphere application server deployments that can enable organizations to meet current and future requirements. It will enable you to optimize your existing WebSphere entitlements, modernize your applications, and build new cloud-native Java EE applications. An all-in-one solution to help you run, modernize and create new Java applications. Use IBM Cloud® Transformation Advisor and IBM Mono2Micro to help assess the cloud readiness of your applications, explore options for containerization and microservices, and get assistance in adapting code. Explore and unlock the benefits of the all-in-one IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition solution for your application run time and modernization features. Identify which WebSphere applications can easily move to containers for immediate savings. Manage costs, enhancements, and security proactively throughout the application lifecycle.
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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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    Oracle WebLogic Server
    Oracle WebLogic Server is a unified and extensible platform for developing, deploying and running enterprise applications, such as Java, for on-premises and in the cloud. WebLogic Server offers a robust, mature, and scalable implementation of Java Enterprise Edition (EE) and Jakarta EE. Oracle WebLogic Server is fully supported on Kubernetes and enables users to migrate and efficiently build modern container apps with comprehensive Java services. Check out the WebLogic Kubernetes ToolKit, a complete set of open-source tools that simplifies running on Kubernetes, on-premises or in the cloud. Java EE and Jakarta EE provide a powerful combination of technologies and APIs that focus on ease of enterprise application development and management.
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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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