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Bruno vs easegress
Bruno has 47,992 GitHub stars, 3,068 forks, 1,831 open issues and last shipped yesterday. easegress has 5,873 stars, 500 forks, 10 open issues and last shipped 21 days ago. Bruno leads on adoption by 717% (47,992 vs 5,873 stars). Bruno is written in JavaScript under MIT; easegress is written in Go under Apache-2.0. Bruno has attracted 6% as many forks as stars, easegress 9%. 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 | easegress | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 48K | ★ 5.9K |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | JavaScript | Go |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-10-13 |
| Forks | ⑂ 3.1K | ⑂ 500 |
| 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 easegress if
- You want the easegress feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and easegress 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 easegress
Easegress What is Easegress Features Getting Started Launch Easegress Reverse Proxy Use Cases Documentation Easegress Portal Screenshots Community Contributing License What is Easegress Easegress is a Cloud Native traffic orchestration system designed for: High Availability: Built in Raft consensus & leader election provides 99.99% availability. Traffic Orchestration: Simple orchestration of various filters for each traffic pipeline. High Performance: Lightweight and essential features speed up the performance. Observability: There are many meaningful statistics periodically in a readable way. Extensibility…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Bruno or easegress more popular?
Bruno has 47,992 GitHub stars and easegress has 5,873. Bruno has the larger community by that measure.
Are Bruno and easegress free?
Both are open source. Bruno is licensed under MIT and easegress under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Bruno and easegress?
Bruno is written in JavaScript and easegress 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 easegress?
Choose Bruno if you want the larger community (47,992 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose easegress if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.