Best of / Rust crates / web frameworks
Best of · ranked by real use · data Oct 24, 2026
Best Rust crates for web frameworks
Short answerBy real use, the top Rust crates for web frameworks are axum (1.6M a day), actix-web (144K a day), warp (70.4K a day). axum is our default pick: 1,587,646 real downloads a day and 9,968 dependents. 3 of these 5 shipped in the last 90 days.
Our picks
- Default pick: axum. The most used that still ships releases, so the most answered questions and the likeliest to already be in your tree.
- Most recently released: actix-web (1 day ago).
The ranking
| # | Crate | Real downloads a day | Dependents | Trend vs field | Last release | What it is (its own description) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | axum Widely used | 1,587,646 | 9,968 | -4% | 6mo | HTTP routing and request handling library that focuses on ergonomics and modularity |
| 2 | actix-web Widely used | 144,166 | 1,747 | -19% | 1d | Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust |
| 3 | warp Established | 70,368 | 618 | -13% | 6mo | serve the web at warp speeds |
| 4 | rocket Established | 22,064 | 628 | -31% | 1d | Web framework with a focus on usability, security, extensibility, and speed |
| 5 | dioxus Established | 13,715 | 460 | +9% | 8d | Build fullstack web, desktop, and mobile apps with a single codebase |
Rules
Candidates: crates whose own README says they do this job, picked by hand (axum, actix-web, rocket, warp, poem, salvo, tide, ntex, loco-rs, leptos, dioxus); one appears when we have 80+ days of crates.io data for it. Ranked by real downloads a day (quiet-day median, release-day spikes removed), crates.io data Oct 24, 2026. The default pick is the top crate that shipped a release in the last 2 years. Downloads measure use, not quality, and crates that other libraries pull in rank above tools you add yourself: read each description for fit.
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