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turborepo vs bun
turborepo has 31,118 GitHub stars, 2,445 forks, 13 open issues and last shipped today. bun has 4,974 stars, 306 forks, 38 open issues and last shipped 1 months ago. turborepo leads on adoption by 526% (31,118 vs 4,974 stars). turborepo is written in Rust under MIT; bun is written in Go under BSD-2-Clause. turborepo has attracted 8% as many forks as stars, bun 6%. turborepo 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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| turborepo | bun | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 31K | ★ 5.0K |
| License | MIT | BSD-2-Clause |
| Written in | Rust | Go |
| Last push | 2026-09-20 | 2026-08-21 |
| Forks | ⑂ 2.4K | ⑂ 306 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick turborepo if
- You weight community size — 31K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Rust
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick bun if
- You want the bun feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the BSD-2-Clause license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and bun fits your workflow better
About turborepo
Turborepo is a build system for JavaScript and TypeScript monorepos, written in Rust and released under the MIT licence, intended for teams that build many packages inside one repository and for the coding agents those teams run against it.
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About bun
Bun is a lightweight, SQL first object relational mapper for Go that gives backend engineers type safe access to PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, MSSQL, SQLite, and Oracle from one database agnostic codebase.
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Frequently asked questions
Is turborepo or bun more popular?
turborepo has 31,118 GitHub stars and bun has 4,974. turborepo has the larger community by that measure.
Are turborepo and bun free?
Both are open source. turborepo is licensed under MIT and bun under BSD-2-Clause. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between turborepo and bun?
turborepo is written in Rust and bun 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, turborepo or bun?
Choose turborepo if you want the larger community (31,118 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose bun if its feature set, stack or BSD-2-Clause licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.