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turborepo vs Bear
turborepo has 31,118 GitHub stars, 2,445 forks, 13 open issues and last shipped today. Bear has 6,493 stars, 369 forks, 0 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. turborepo leads on adoption by 379% (31,118 vs 6,493 stars). turborepo is written in Rust under MIT; Bear is written in Rust under GPL-3.0. turborepo has attracted 8% as many forks as stars, Bear 6%. turborepo was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (build-tool), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| turborepo | Bear | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 31K | ★ 6.5K |
| License | MIT | GPL-3.0 |
| Written in | Rust | Rust |
| Last push | 2026-09-20 | 2026-09-18 |
| Forks | ⑂ 2.4K | ⑂ 369 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick turborepo if
- You weight community size — 31K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Rust
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick Bear if
- You want the Bear feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the GPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Rust
- You evaluated both and Bear fits your workflow better
About turborepo
Turborepo is a build system for JavaScript and TypeScript monorepos, written in Rust and released under the MIT licence, intended for teams that build many packages inside one repository and for the coding agents those teams run against it.
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About Bear
Bear is a GPL 3.0, Rust based command line tool that produces a compile commands.json compilation database for any C or C++ build by recording the compiler invocations that run during it, and it is aimed at developers, code explorers, and CI jobs whose build systems cannot emit that database on their own.
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Frequently asked questions
Is turborepo or Bear more popular?
turborepo has 31,118 GitHub stars and Bear has 6,493. turborepo has the larger community by that measure.
Are turborepo and Bear free?
Both are open source. turborepo is licensed under MIT and Bear under GPL-3.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between turborepo and Bear?
turborepo is written in Rust and Bear in Rust. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, turborepo or Bear?
Choose turborepo if you want the larger community (31,118 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose Bear if its feature set, stack or GPL-3.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.