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Bruno vs claudia
Bruno has 47,992 GitHub stars, 3,068 forks, 1,831 open issues and last shipped yesterday. claudia has 3,883 stars, 276 forks, 27 open issues and last shipped 6 months ago. Bruno leads on adoption by 1,136% (47,992 vs 3,883 stars). Bruno is written in JavaScript under MIT; claudia is written in JavaScript under MIT. Bruno has attracted 6% as many forks as stars, claudia 7%. Bruno was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (javascript), 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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| Bruno | claudia | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 48K | ★ 3.9K |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | JavaScript | JavaScript |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-05-03 |
| Forks | ⑂ 3.1K | ⑂ 276 |
| 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 claudia if
- You want the claudia feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches JavaScript
- You evaluated both and claudia 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 claudia
Claudia.js Claudia makes it easy to deploy Node.js projects to AWS Lambda and API Gateway. It automates all the error prone deployment and configuration tasks, and sets everything up the way JavaScript developers expect out of the box. This means that you can get started with Lambda and API Gateway easily, and focus on solving important business problems instead of dealing with AWS deployment workflows. Check out this video to see how to create and deploy a microservice in under 5 minutes. With the help of Claudia builder projects, you can also use API Gateway as if it were a lightweight javascript web server…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Bruno or claudia more popular?
Bruno has 47,992 GitHub stars and claudia has 3,883. Bruno has the larger community by that measure.
Are Bruno and claudia free?
Both are open source. Bruno is licensed under MIT and claudia under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Bruno and claudia?
Bruno is written in JavaScript and claudia in JavaScript. 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 claudia?
Choose Bruno if you want the larger community (47,992 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose claudia if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.