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Bruno vs cli-printing-press
Bruno has 47,992 GitHub stars, 3,068 forks, 1,831 open issues and last shipped yesterday. cli-printing-press has 4,903 stars, 533 forks, 65 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Bruno leads on adoption by 879% (47,992 vs 4,903 stars). Bruno is written in JavaScript under MIT; cli-printing-press is written in Go under MIT. Bruno has attracted 6% as many forks as stars, cli-printing-press 11%. cli-printing-press was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 2 topic tags (developer-tools, openapi), 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 | cli-printing-press | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 48K | ★ 4.9K |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | JavaScript | Go |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-11-02 |
| Forks | ⑂ 3.1K | ⑂ 533 |
| 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 cli-printing-press if
- You want the cli-printing-press feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and cli-printing-press 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 cli-printing-press
CLI Printing Press Nothing is more valuable than time and money. In a world of AI agents, that's speed and token spend. A well designed CLI is muscle memory for an agent: no hunting through docs, no wrong turns, no wasted tokens. We built the Printing Press to print the best CLIs in the world for agents. It reads the official API docs, studies every popular community CLI and MCP server, sniffs the web for the APIs nobody published (think Google Flights or Dominos), and applies the power user playbook Peter Steinberger proved with discrawl and gogcli local SQLite, compound commands, agent native flags. It fuses…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Bruno or cli-printing-press more popular?
Bruno has 47,992 GitHub stars and cli-printing-press has 4,903. Bruno has the larger community by that measure.
Are Bruno and cli-printing-press free?
Both are open source. Bruno is licensed under MIT and cli-printing-press under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Bruno and cli-printing-press?
Bruno is written in JavaScript and cli-printing-press in Go. 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 cli-printing-press?
Choose Bruno if you want the larger community (47,992 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose cli-printing-press if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.