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Bruno vs pingoo
Bruno has 47,982 GitHub stars, 3,066 forks, 1,831 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. pingoo has 1,040 stars, 41 forks, 22 open issues and last shipped 12 days ago. Bruno leads on adoption by 4,514% (47,982 vs 1,040 stars). Bruno is written in JavaScript under MIT; pingoo is written in Rust under MIT. Bruno has attracted 6% as many forks as stars, pingoo 4%. 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 | pingoo | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 48K | ★ 1.0K |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | JavaScript | Rust |
| Last push | 2026-11-01 | 2026-10-22 |
| Forks | ⑂ 3.1K | ⑂ 41 |
| 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 pingoo if
- You want the pingoo feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Rust
- You evaluated both and pingoo 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 pingoo
Pingoo The fast and secure Load Balancer / API Gateway / Reverse Proxy with built in service discovery, GeoIP, WAF, bot protection and much more Documentation Read the launch post Open Source load balancers and reverse proxies are stuck in the past century with a very slow pace of development and most of the important features reserved for "Enterprise Editions" which lead developers to use third party cloud services, exposing their users' traffic to legal, security and reliability risks. Pingoo is a modern Load Balancer / API Gateway / Reverse Proxy that run on your own servers and already have (or will have…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Bruno or pingoo more popular?
Bruno has 47,982 GitHub stars and pingoo has 1,040. Bruno has the larger community by that measure.
Are Bruno and pingoo free?
Both are open source. Bruno is licensed under MIT and pingoo under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Bruno and pingoo?
Bruno is written in JavaScript and pingoo in Rust. 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 pingoo?
Choose Bruno if you want the larger community (47,982 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose pingoo if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.