Actix
A powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust
- Also known as
- actix
What is Actix?
Actix Web is a web framework for Rust with type safety, HTTP/2 support, URL routing, flexible responders, and powerful extractors for handling HTTP requests.
What Actix does
The capabilities that matter for web frameworks, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Rendering model
- -
- File-based routing
- -
- Language
- Rust
- Server components
- -
- Streaming SSR
- -
- Built-in API / backend routes
- ✓
- First-class TypeScript
- ✗
- Fast refresh / HMR
- -
- Edge runtime support
- -
Actix alternatives
Other web frameworks we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Actix, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Github Activity | 35 | 18.00 | 631.3 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 29 | 16.00 | 462.5 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 83 | 5.00 | 414.4 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 8.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Release Cadence | 0 | 10.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 13.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Package Downloads | 0 | 26.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 12.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 12 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 65% |
Adoption
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Github stars | 24,764 | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 90% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"language":"Rust","api_routes":true,"typescript_first":false} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Rust | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | Apache-2.0 | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 95% |