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Spring Boot vs Spring MVC comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Spring Boot
Ranking in Java Frameworks
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
44
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Spring MVC
Ranking in Java Frameworks
7th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Java Frameworks category, the mindshare of Spring Boot is 28.0%, down from 40.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spring MVC is 7.2%, up from 3.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Java Frameworks Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Spring Boot28.0%
Spring MVC7.2%
Other64.8%
Java Frameworks
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2759913 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Software Developer at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
Has improved application monitoring and supports modular development with built-in configuration features
Spring Boot has many valuable features. First, it requires less coding and less configuration. The configurations are already in-built. The security features in Spring Boot are in-built, so we don't need to use any external third-party applications for security. In Spring Boot, the robust configuration capabilities help in adapting to diverse deployment scenarios because there is a minimum configuration required for developing any applications. The auto-configuration feature is available in Spring Boot. When we start any application, there is a property file where we mention the keys, securities, DB connections, and all other configurations. When we start any application, it loads the application properties first, which include the credentials and security files. I am using Spring Boot starter projects. I assess Spring Boot's auto-configuration feature as highly efficient in managing application setup. The application.properties file allows us to specify the server settings, such as the port we want to start the server on. For example, the default is 8080, but we can configure it to 8081. Additionally, we can store connection details such as the driver class, data source URL, username, and password in the application.properties file.
Arkabrata  Ghosh - PeerSpot reviewer
Java developer at Marlabs Inc.
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

"If you wanted to build your own product or solution, Spring Boot offers many possibilities."
"Once you know how to use this solution, it's very easy, especially when building APIs."
"In my opinion, the best feature in Spring Boot is its inbuilt Tomcat server."
"The setup is straightforward."
"The solution reduces our development time."
"Spring Boot has a very lightweight framework, and you can develop projects within a short time. It's open-source and customizable. It's easy to control, has a very interesting deployment policy, and a very interesting testing policy. It's sophisticated."
"We like that the product is open-source."
"In terms of stability, the performance is good and it is a reliable product."
"Dependency Injection is one of the major features which makes our life easier using Spring. It is well documented and has active communities, which provide us enormous help."
"The solution can scale."
"Spring has a speedy development process with a lightweight framework."
"The solution is stable and reliable, and developing web applications is quite easy there."
"The best feature of Spring MVC is its auto-configuration capabilities."
"When we shifted from our legacy frameworks to the Spring framework, we discovered that Spring definitely made our development easier. One good example is that there is a lot of boiler plate code available that you don't have to write from scratch, making the development of web applications a much simpler process."
"We have found Spring is easy to use and learn."
"We appreciate that this product is really easy to integrate with third-party UI services."
 

Cons

"I have encountered performance and stability issues in the on-premises usage of Spring Boot."
"Nothing really comes to mind in terms of areas of improvement."
"If you want to create large microservices applications, you need to connect several applications and services to each other. It is very complicated, and Spring Boot does not have an integrated solution for it."
"Spring Boot can improve the dependency tree that we use for libraries. It would be helpful if it was less complex."
"The database connectivity could be better in terms of dealing with multi-tenant systems."
"The cloud packaging is not very straightforward, I would say."
"Spring Boot is lacking visibility in terms of how that business process or business rule would look within your application."
"Building a new product in Spring Boot can take a long time since the solution uses reflection. This is one area the solution could be improved."
"The solution could be simplified quite a bit. It's unnecessarily complicated in some areas."
"The link with UI components could be improved."
"The newer versions of Spring MVC have released a lot of features that we are not using right now because, in many cases, we are limited to running older versions. As such, it would be nice if Spring were to improve support for upgrading to newer versions, especially for legacy applications."
"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."
"Spring MVC could improve the integration with DevOps and other applications."
"I have recently had problems with the changes that were made using Spring Security."
"The initial setup could be more straightforward. It's not very easy to accomplish a deployment."
"The documentation for Spring MVC could improve."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is an open source solution."
"This is an open-source product."
"I use the free version of Spring Boot."
"This solution is free unless you apply for support."
"Spring Boot is open source. It's a free tool and free framework."
"Spring Boot is an open-source solution."
"I am using a free version of Spring Boot."
"As Spring Boot is an open-source tool, it's free."
"This is an open-source solution, so there are no license costs involved with using it."
"We are using the open-source version of the solution."
"Spring MVC is open source and free."
"It is an open-source solution."
"The solution is free."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
28%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
University
6%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business21
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise19
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise11
 

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Spring by Pivotal, Spring, Spring Framework
 

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