Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to gRPC

The top open-source alternatives to gRPC are Apache Thrift, Eureka, and GraphQL. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Apache Thrift Landing Page
1

Apache Thrift

An interface definition language and communication protocol for creating cross-language services.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web Servers #Web And Application Servers #Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy 12 social mentions
Eureka Landing Page
2

Eureka

Eureka is a contact center and enterprise performance through speech analytics that immediately reveals insights from automated analysis of communications including calls, chat, email, texts, social media, surveys and more.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web Servers #Web And Application Servers #Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy
GraphQL Landing Page
3

GraphQL

GraphQL is a data query language and runtime to request and deliver data to mobile and web apps.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Web Frameworks #JavaScript Framework 223 social mentions
Docker Hub Landing Page
4

Docker Hub

Docker Hub is a cloud-based registry service
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Web Servers #Web And Application Servers 306 social mentions
Apache ZooKeeper Landing Page
5

Apache ZooKeeper

Apache ZooKeeper is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source server which enables highly reliable distributed coordination.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server 29 social mentions
Traefik Landing Page
6

Traefik

Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web Servers #Web And Application Servers #Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy 34 social mentions
etcd Landing Page
7

etcd

A distributed, reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web Servers #Web And Application Servers #Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy 25 social mentions
linkerd Landing Page
8

linkerd

Linkerd is an ultralight service mesh for Kubernetes. It gives you observability, reliability, and security without requiring any code changes.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web Servers #Web And Application Servers #Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy 15 social mentions
nginx Landing Page
9

nginx

A high performance free open source web server powering busiest sites on the Internet.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server 46 social mentions
Kubernetes Landing Page
10

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #DevOps Tools #Containers As A Service 283 social mentions
Postman Landing Page
11

Postman

The Collaboration Platform for API Development
Pricing:
- Open Source
#APIs #API Tools #Developer Tools 27 social mentions
Istio Landing Page
12

Istio

Open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Web And Application Servers #Web Servers 46 social mentions