How many companies use Erlang?

TechLeads currently detects Erlang on 10,595 websites. HTTP Archive's monthly crawl, a separate dataset, detected it on 13,474 pages in September 2026.

Who are Erlang's biggest competitors?

By number of websites, the largest Programming languages technologies besides Erlang are PHP (13,444,051), Node.js (1,465,709), Java (706,134), TypeScript (455,651), Python (379,890).

Which companies use Erlang?

Websites using Erlang include fontawesome.com, plausible.io, familysearch.org, cars.com, elnacional.cat, hibridosyelectricos.com. The full list of 10,595 websites can be exported as a CSV for $29.

Erlang market share and customers

As of October 8, 2026, Erlang is used by 10,595 websites in the TechLeads index: 0.06% of all Programming languages detections, the 14th most-used of 27 Programming languages technologies.

10,595

websites using Erlang

0.06%

share of Programming languages

#14

of 27 in Programming languages

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Erlang vs competitors in Programming languages

Websites using each technology in the TechLeads index, and its share of all Programming languages detections.

#	Technology	Websites	Share
1	PHP	13,444,051	78.9%
2	Node.js	1,465,709	8.6%
3	Java	706,134	4.1%
4	TypeScript	455,651	2.7%
5	Python	379,890	2.2%
6	Ruby	330,909	1.9%
7	GraphQL	97,962	0.58%

Erlang usage over time

In HTTP Archive's monthly crawl of public websites, Erlang was detected on 13,474 pages in September 2026, down 31.7% from a year earlier (peak: 70,899). HTTP Archive is a separate dataset from the TechLeads index, so its numbers are not added to ours.

Same month, other Programming Languages technologies in HTTP Archive: PHP 24,737,328, Node.js 3,181,312, Java 1,381,600, TypeScript 903,768, Ruby 689,968.

Erlang customers by country

Based on country-code domains (such as .de or .co.uk); websites on .com and other generic domains are not assigned a country.

Companies using Erlang

fontawesome.com
plausible.io
familysearch.org
cars.com · Cars.com
elnacional.cat · ElNacional.cat
hibridosyelectricos.com · Híbridos y Eléctricos
culinarybackstreets.com
fly.io
dukechronicle.com
gotocph.com
dailyuw.com
nappy.co

See all 10,595 websites using Erlang or download the full list as a CSV for $29.

How these numbers are calculated

TechLeads scans public websites and detects Erlang from signals in the page HTML, scripts, cookies, HTTP headers and DNS records. Market share is Erlang's website count divided by the website counts of all Programming languages technologies we track; a site using two Programming languages tools counts for both. Counts were last refreshed on October 8, 2026 and update daily.

FAQ

Erlang accounts for 0.06% of Programming languages detections in the TechLeads index (10,595 websites), which makes it the 14th most-used of 27 Programming languages technologies we track.