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Spring Boot vs Spring MVC comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Spring Boot
Ranking in Java Frameworks
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
38
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Spring MVC
Ranking in Java Frameworks
5th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Java Frameworks category, the mindshare of Spring Boot is 40.1%, down from 42.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spring MVC is 3.4%, up from 3.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

RajuGottupalli - PeerSpot reviewer
Minimizes a lot of coding, improves the time to market, and is easily deployable and configurable
Spring Boot is a bounded framework. The services we develop are purely synchronous services, so there's a blocking and waiting state. This is a big problem in microservices. To avoid this problem, we have to make the service a reactive session. It has to be reactive to a particular load, particular condition, or based on the number of requests hitting the particular service. All these factors make the service a reactor. There's another module in which Spring Boot provides spring reflex. This module enables the reactiveness of the service, meaning that it eliminates the blocking and waiting state. For example, if you're sending a get operation or a post operation, there won't be any waiting for it to actually hit that particular network to get the data from another service. It continuously flows the request, and there is a zero waiting pack. Vert.x is another good framework where there are similar features or similar benefits with having a reactive session. Spring Boot is a license resource, so it's a framework where we can customize our solution or a particular requirement to build a good solution using Spring Boot. But it's an opinionated framework, meaning that it's completely bounded. You have only one direction to find a solution, whereas Vert.x is an unopinionated framework. Unopinionated is a kind of a toolkit where you can have more optimization and a more flexible solution, which is suitable to your requirements. In Spring Boot, the opportunities are limited. With Vert.x and other programming tools, we have multiple options to explore the solution in a different way and achieve a nonfunctional requirement of thousands transactions in a second. Spring Boot might not support this kind of non-functional requirement. Vert.X is a very good solution to solve critical NFRs for a particular application.
Arkabrata  Ghosh - PeerSpot reviewer
A scalable tool with great auto-configuration capabilities
The best feature of Spring MVC is its auto-configuration capabilities. A user need not configure anything in the product as it offers configuration files to set profiling and guide users with what they need to connect for development, staging, or production. The auto-configuration is one of the best components of the solution.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Spring Boot is much easier when it comes to the configuration, setup, installation, and deployment of your applications, compared to any kind of MVC framework. It has everything within a single framework."
"I have found the starter solutions valuable, as well as integration with other products."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...The initial setup was not complex and was a simple process."
"The most valuable feature of Spring Boot is the microservices and change information. Additionally, there are plenty of features."
"The API gateway and cloud configuration allows us to configure the properties outside of the service with respect to enrollment."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"The solution reduces our development time."
"The setup is straightforward."
"It provides the best documentation for technical support."
"Spring MVC's extensive documentation is the most valuable feature."
"Spring MVC is fast and reliable."
"The solution can scale."
"The solution is open-source and free to use."
"We appreciate that this product is really easy to integrate with third-party UI services."
"The most valuable feature is simplicity."
"The best feature of Spring MVC is its auto-configuration capabilities."
 

Cons

"The solution has some vulnerabilities and fails our security audits, forcing us to keep fixing the solution."
"It needs more applicable control for large-scale application development."
"When we change versions, we run into issues."
"It's difficult to explain to junior developers what it does under the hood."
"This solution could be improved if it offered greater integration and was more compatible with other solutions."
"This solution could be improved if there were more libraries available. We would also like more mobile platform functionality using low levels of code."
"Spring Boot's cost could be cheaper."
"Spring Boot is okay right now, but my team is looking for some integration where you can make a call to the JMS messaging service and other types of third-party integrations. If the integration with Spring Boot is improved, that would make the tool better. What I'd like to see in the next release of Spring Boot is its integration or tie-up with messaging servers and third-party EFPs, as that would make it very good and more competitive versus other new solutions in the market."
"It can be difficult for a basic user to understand the concepts in this solution, such as inversion of control."
"I saw some error messages coming up when they were getting problems actually viewing all the reports."
"The documentation for Spring MVC could improve."
"The solution could be simplified quite a bit. It's unnecessarily complicated in some areas."
"We would like the deployment of this solution to be easier as, at present, it is quite complicated."
"I have recently had problems with the changes that were made using Spring Security."
"Spring IDE​ needs some work and improvement. We have faced many issues when adding third-party Eclipse plugins."
"Spring MVC could improve the integration with DevOps and other applications."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Spring Boot is an open source solution, it is free to use."
"Spring Boot is open source."
"If you want support there is paid enterprise version with support available."
"Spring Boot is free; even the Spring Tools Suite for Eclipse is free."
"I use the free version of Spring Boot."
"It's an open-source solution."
"The solution is free."
"It's open-source software, so it's free. It's a community license."
"We are using the open-source version of the solution."
"Spring MVC is open source and free."
"The solution is free."
"It is an open-source solution."
"This is an open-source solution, so there are no license costs involved with using it."
"It is an affordable solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
30%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
25%
Computer Software Company
21%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Real Estate/Law Firm
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Spring Boot?
1. Open Source2. Excellent Community Support -- Widely used across different projects -- so your search for answers would be easy and almost certain.3. Extendable Stack with a wide array of availab...
Which is better - Spring Boot or Eclipse MicroProfile?
Springboot is a Java-based solution that is very popular and easy to use. You can use it to build applications quickly and confidently. Springboot has a very large, helpful learning community, whic...
Which is better - Spring Boot or Jakarta EE?
Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether the Spring Boot or Jakarta EE application creation software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Spring Boot. Spring Boot offe...
What do you like most about Spring MVC?
The best feature of Spring MVC is its auto-configuration capabilities.
What needs improvement with Spring MVC?
In the future, I expect the solution to offer and include a lot of packages so that it can be configured more easily or the speed level increases, thereby helping it overcome its shortcomings.
 

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Spring by Pivotal, Spring, Spring Framework
 

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