Best Application Server Software

Compare the Top Application Server Software as of February 2026

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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    GigaSpaces

    GigaSpaces

    GigaSpaces

    eRAG (enterprise RAG) combines the power of real-time operational data with GPT’s fantastic user experience: Chat spontaneously and get immediate answers grounded in a unique understanding of your operational data. With its sophisticated semantic reasoning capabilities, eRAG ensures you get accurate, consistent answers. It answers complex, cross-system questions instantly, supports decisions with suggestions, challenges, and next steps. eRAG connects your business data with external events, so that you can weigh the effect of new tax legislation or weather disruptions on your operations. eRAG combines all your operational data sources so you can get a full, unified picture of your business, offering measurable revenue and efficiency outcomes. Through a self-serve UI, IT teams can connect SQL-based databases like Oracle, PostgreSQL, SAP and other systems in just a few clicks. And you can get up and running in 2–3 weeks - no data prep needed.
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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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    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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    Rocket C\Prof

    Rocket C\Prof

    Rocket Software

    Rocket C\Prof is a CICS performance monitoring and transaction profiling tool for CICS environments that transforms internal CICS trace data into an intuitive, searchable format so teams can quickly identify, investigate, and resolve performance bottlenecks and issues across CICS applications. It lets users view full CICS transactions across regions, drill into trace events tied to specific transactions or program calls, filter and sort millions of event records, and analyze elapsed times and program flows to uncover causes of delays or inefficiencies without needing CICS changes or heavy system overhead. With powerful find, filter, save, and sort capabilities, C\Prof helps engineers isolate problematic calls, follow program flows across multiple CICS regions, and review detailed performance profiles for individual applications, supporting faster diagnosis and reduced impact from performance problems.
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