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Bruno vs fuego
Bruno has 47,992 GitHub stars, 3,068 forks, 1,831 open issues and last shipped yesterday. fuego has 1,775 stars, 128 forks, 18 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Bruno leads on adoption by 2,604% (47,992 vs 1,775 stars). Bruno is written in JavaScript under MIT; fuego is written in Go under MIT. Bruno has attracted 6% as many forks as stars, fuego 7%. Bruno was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 2 topic tags (openapi, openapi3), 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 | fuego | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 48K | ★ 1.8K |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | JavaScript | Go |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-11-02 |
| Forks | ⑂ 3.1K | ⑂ 128 |
| 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 fuego if
- You want the fuego feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and fuego 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 fuego
Fuego 🔥 The framework for busy Go developers 🚀 Explore and contribute to our 2025 Roadmap! 🚀 Production ready Go API framework generating OpenAPI documentation from code. Inspired by Nest, built for Go developers. Also empowers templating with html/template , a h/templ and maragudk/gomponents : see the example running live. Why Fuego? Chi, Gin, Fiber and Echo are great frameworks. But since they were designed a long time ago, [their current API does not allow them][gin gonic issue] to deduce OpenAPI types from signatures, things that are now possible with generics. Fuego offers a lot of "modern Go based"…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Bruno or fuego more popular?
Bruno has 47,992 GitHub stars and fuego has 1,775. Bruno has the larger community by that measure.
Are Bruno and fuego free?
Both are open source. Bruno is licensed under MIT and fuego under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Bruno and fuego?
Bruno is written in JavaScript and fuego 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 fuego?
Choose Bruno if you want the larger community (47,992 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose fuego if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.