Comparison

AdonisJS vs Ruby on Rails

On the evidence we track, Ruby on Rails leads this comparison with a composite score of 72/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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AdonisJS62
★Ruby on Rails72
Score
vioscaleAI score
AdonisJS62 / 100high · 77%
Ruby on Rails72 / 100medium · 51%
Pricing
Free tier
AdonisJS✓
Ruby on Rails✓
Model
AdonisJScommercial
Ruby on Railsopen_source
Price level
AdonisJSfree
Ruby on Railsfree
Transparent
AdonisJS✓
Ruby on Rails–
Integrations
Count
AdonisJS4
Ruby on Rails–
Adoption
Dependent repos
AdonisJS1,234
Ruby on Rails1,358,186
Github stars
AdonisJS19,142
Ruby on Rails58,803
Package downloads weekly
AdonisJS193,052
Ruby on Rails–
Activity
Commits last 30d
AdonisJS8
Ruby on Rails100
Release
Cadence days
AdonisJS11
Ruby on Rails–
History
AdonisJS20 items
Ruby on Rails20 items
License
Spdx
AdonisJSMIT
Ruby on RailsMIT
Language
Primary
AdonisJSTypeScript
Ruby on RailsRuby
Content
Faq
AdonisJS6 items
Ruby on Rails5 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for web frameworks. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
Rendering model
AdonisJSServer-side
Ruby on RailsServer-side
File-based routing
AdonisJS✗
Ruby on Rails✓
Language
AdonisJSTypeScript
Ruby on RailsRuby
Rendering
Server components
AdonisJS-
Ruby on Rails-
Streaming SSR
AdonisJS-
Ruby on Rails-
Fullstack
Built-in API / backend routes
AdonisJS✓
Ruby on Rails✓
DX
First-class TypeScript
AdonisJS✓
Ruby on Rails✗
Fast refresh / HMR
AdonisJS✓
Ruby on Rails-
Deployment
Edge runtime support
AdonisJS-
Ruby on Rails-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

AdonisJS

A complete backend framework for Node.js applications that provides integrated components for user authentication, database management, data validation, email delivery, task queues, caching, and testing. It aims to reduce setup overhead by including these capabilities as built-in features rather than requiring separate configuration and integration.

Independently observed

Ruby on Rails

Leader

A full-stack framework for building web applications with integrated database modeling, templating, email handling, real-time WebSocket support, background job processing, and security features.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

AdonisJS

from $500/moOpen sourceFree tier

Open source framework; professional support at $500/month

  • Professional Support$500/month
    • Direct access to creator (Harminder Virk)
    • Private Slack channel
    • 24-hour guaranteed email response
    • Architecture consultations
    • Performance optimization
    • +4 more
as of verify ↗

Ruby on Rails

Leader
Open source
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
AdonisJS✓
Ruby on Rails✓
CLI
AdonisJS✓
Ruby on Rails✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
AdonisJS✓
Ruby on Rails✓
Self-hosted
AdonisJS✓
Ruby on Rails✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

AdonisJS

9 total
  • Inertia
  • Vite
  • Redis
  • Tanstack React Query
  • Cloudflare
  • Amazon S3
  • Cloudflare R2
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Playwright
Independently observed

Ruby on Rails

Leader

Not documented yet.

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