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Bruno vs api-umbrella
Bruno has 47,992 GitHub stars, 3,068 forks, 1,831 open issues and last shipped yesterday. api-umbrella has 2,203 stars, 375 forks, 256 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Bruno leads on adoption by 2,078% (47,992 vs 2,203 stars). Bruno is written in JavaScript under MIT; api-umbrella is written in Ruby under MIT. Bruno has attracted 6% as many forks as stars, api-umbrella 17%. Bruno was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
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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| Bruno | api-umbrella | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 48K | ★ 2.2K |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | JavaScript | Ruby |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-11-02 |
| Forks | ⑂ 3.1K | ⑂ 375 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Bruno if
- You weight community size — 48K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches JavaScript
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick api-umbrella if
- You want the api-umbrella feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Ruby
- You evaluated both and api-umbrella fits your workflow better
About Bruno
Bruno Opensource IDE for exploring and testing APIs. English Українська Русский Türkçe Deutsch Français Português (BR) 한국어 বাংলা Español Italiano Română Polski 简体中文 正體中文 العربية 日本語 ქართული Nederlands فارسی Bruno is a new and innovative API client, aimed at revolutionizing the status quo represented by Postman and similar tools out there. Bruno stores your collections directly in a folder on your filesystem. We use a plain text markup language, Bru, to save information about API requests. You can use Git or any version control of your choice to collaborate over your API collections. Bruno is offline only. There…
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About api-umbrella
API Umbrella What Is API Umbrella? API Umbrella is an open source API management platform for exposing web service APIs. The basic goal of API Umbrella is to make life easier for both API creators and API consumers. How? Make life easier for API creators: Allow API creators to focus on building APIs. Standardize the boring stuff: APIs can assume the boring stuff (access control, rate limiting, analytics, etc.) is already taken care if the API is being accessed, so common functionality doesn't need to be implemented in the API code. Easy to add: API Umbrella acts as a layer above your APIs, so your API code…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Bruno or api-umbrella more popular?
Bruno has 47,992 GitHub stars and api-umbrella has 2,203. Bruno has the larger community by that measure.
Are Bruno and api-umbrella free?
Both are open source. Bruno is licensed under MIT and api-umbrella under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Bruno and api-umbrella?
Bruno is written in JavaScript and api-umbrella in Ruby. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, Bruno or api-umbrella?
Choose Bruno if you want the larger community (47,992 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose api-umbrella if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.