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Rust crates · category · data Oct 27, 2026
HTTP server crates by real downloads
crates.io describes this category as: “Crates to serve data over HTTP.” Below are the 6 crates in it among the 1000 most-downloaded crates, ranked by real downloads (quiet-day baseline) instead of raw count.
Short answerBy steady daily use, hyper leads HTTP server with 2,783,528 real downloads a day (widely used and steady). 3 of the 6 have 1,000+ dependents; 0 have shipped nothing in 2+ years. Release spikes barely matter here: the median crate got 3.7% of its downloads within 2 days of a release.
6 crates
| Compare | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| hyperWidely used | 2,783,528 | 5,861 | 18d | -6% | 1B | |
| hyper-utilWidely used | 1,948,171 | 3,155 | 30d | +6% | 568M | |
| axumWidely used | 1,587,646 | 9,968 | 6mo | -4% | 541M | |
| lambda_runtimeEstablished | 48,397 | 100 | 6d | -30% | 20.6M | |
| lambda_httpPulled in | 25,267 | 63 | 6d | -50% | 10.9M | |
| juniperEstablished | 4,120 | 177 | 9mo | -18% | 3.7M |
Click a column to sort; press + to add a crate to a comparison. Real / day = median downloads on days with no release that day or the day before. Each crate's page shows its verdict and the 4 rules behind it. Why this method · this category on crates.io
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