nginx:1.30-alpine vs httpd:2.4-alpine

The short answer

• nginx:1.30-alpine is 5.7 MB smaller unpacked on amd64 (64 MB vs 69 MB, 8% less).
• As a download, httpd:2.4-alpine is 21 MB compressed against 26 MB for nginx:1.30-alpine: 1.3× less to pull.
• httpd:2.4-alpine has fewer known vulnerabilities: 25 (2 critical or high) against 49 (3 critical or high) in nginx:1.30-alpine.
• 49 of nginx:1.30-alpine's 49 findings have a fixed version available upstream.
• 25 of httpd:2.4-alpine's 25 findings have a fixed version available upstream.
• Alpine images use musl libc instead of glibc. Most software runs unchanged; prebuilt binaries linked against glibc (some Python wheels, Node native modules, vendor agents) may not.
• Packages detected: 71 in nginx:1.30-alpine, 41 in httpd:2.4-alpine.
• Filesystem layers: 8 vs 7.