Open-source rpc software
572 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged rpc, ranked by how closely rpc is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
572 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| php-msf php-msf is a coroutine-based PHP microservice framework built on Swoole, developed by the Camera360 server team. It provides a lightweight … | 23 | 1725 | maintenance |
| funny/link A Go network-layer scaffolding library that provides session management primitives (Session, Manager, Server, Channel) decoupled from any s… | 23 | 1613 | maintenance |
| grpc-ecosystem/grpc-health-probe A command-line utility that queries gRPC services implementing the gRPC Health Checking Protocol and exits with success or failure based on… | 99 | 1571 | maintenance |
| nanomsg/mangos-v1 Mangos v1 is a pure Go implementation of the nanomsg Scalability Protocols (SP) messaging system, supporting Req/Rep, Pub/Sub, Pair, Bus, P… | 10 | 1519 | maintenance |
| tomusdrw/rust-web3 A Rust library implementing an Ethereum JSON-RPC client with multiple transports (HTTP, IPC, WebSockets), analogous to web3.js. It provides… | 55 | 1509 | maintenance |
| fengjiachun/Jupiter Jupiter is a lightweight, high-performance distributed service (RPC) framework for Java built on Netty and NIO. It provides service registr… | 23 | 1505 | maintenance |
| lileio/lile Lile is a Go framework and CLI generator for scaffolding gRPC microservices, similar to `rails new` or `create-react-app` but for gRPC serv… | 23 | 1495 | maintenance |
| tj/axon Axon is a message-oriented socket library for Node.js heavily inspired by ZeroMQ. It provides lightweight messaging patterns such as push/p… | 32 | 1491 | maintenance |
| Smoke Framework Smoke Framework is a lightweight server-side service framework written in Swift, built on SwiftNIO for its networking layer. It supports RE… | 23 | 1454 | maintenance |
| eosjs eosjs is a TypeScript/JavaScript library for integrating applications with EOSIO-based blockchains via the EOSIO RPC API. It provides trans… | 10 | 1422 | maintenance |
| GoogleChromeLabs/clooney Clooney is an actor library for the web that instantiates classes inside Web Workers so expensive work runs off the main thread. It uses Co… | 77 | 1419 | maintenance |
| tidwall/summitdb SummitDB is an in-memory NoSQL key/value database written in Go that persists to disk, provides ACID transactions, and replicates via the R… | 10 | 1406 | maintenance |
| distributedio/titan Titan is a distributed NoSQL database that provides a Redis protocol-compatible layer on top of TiKV, offering strong consistency, distribu… | 32 | 1403 | maintenance |
| improbable-eng/ts-protoc-gen A protoc plugin that generates TypeScript declaration files (.d.ts) matching the JavaScript output of protoc's CommonJS mode. It can also e… | 48 | 1395 | maintenance |
| killme2008/Metamorphosis Metamorphosis (MetaQ) is a high-availability, high-performance distributed messaging middleware written in Java, originally developed at Ta… | 32 | 1329 | maintenance |
| py4j/py4j Py4J is a library that lets Python programs dynamically access Java objects in a JVM over sockets, calling methods as if the objects lived … | 68 | 1287 | maintenance |
| xtaci/gonet gonet is a game server skeleton written in Go, providing a multi-server architecture with Game Servers, a Hub Server for packet forwarding,… | 10 | 1285 | maintenance |
| tang-jie/NettyRPC NettyRPC is a high-performance Java RPC framework built on the Netty networking library, supporting multiple serialization codecs including… | 32 | 1282 | maintenance |
| Xiaofei-it/Hermes Hermes is a Java framework for Android that simplifies inter-process communication (IPC) by letting developers invoke methods in another pr… | 23 | 1271 | maintenance |
| hprose/hprose-golang Hprose for Golang is a lightweight, high-performance, cross-language RPC library that lets Go services communicate with clients and servers… | 23 | 1255 | maintenance |
| web3p/web3.php A PHP library providing an interface to the Ethereum blockchain via JSON-RPC, supporting HTTP, async, and WebSocket providers. It includes … | 23 | 1249 | maintenance |
| bradleyjkemp/grpc-tools A suite of Go-based gRPC debugging tools, including grpc-dump (a transparent proxy that logs gRPC/gRPC-Web traffic as JSON), grpc-replay, g… | 23 | 1241 | maintenance |
| wenweihu86/raft-java A Java library implementing the Raft consensus algorithm, supporting leader election, log replication, snapshots, and dynamic cluster membe… | 32 | 1232 | maintenance |
| grafbase/grafbase Grafbase is a high-performance GraphQL Federation Gateway (Rust router) plus CLI, acquired by The Guild in 2026. The cloud platform has bee… | 79 | 1228 | maintenance |
| rsms/gotalk Gotalk is a Go library and wire protocol for bidirectional, concurrent peer-to-peer communication over any byte stream, with first-class We… | 23 | 1205 | maintenance |
| jmzkChain/jmzk jmzkChain is a C++ blockchain node implementation developed by Hangzhou Yuliankeji (Vastchain), described as a 'Boost Engine for Regulation… | 23 | 1166 | maintenance |
| arskom/spyne Spyne is a transport-agnostic Python RPC framework for exposing services with well-defined typed APIs over multiple protocols such as SOAP,… | 41 | 1153 | maintenance |
| thriftpy A thin compatibility shim that installs thriftpy2 and re-exports it under the historical 'thriftpy' package name. It lets legacy code using… | 80 | 1148 | maintenance |
| leechristensen/SpoolSample SpoolSample is a C# proof-of-concept tool that coerces Windows hosts to authenticate to arbitrary machines via the MS-RPRN Print System Rem… | 32 | 1143 | maintenance |
| njpatel/grpcc grpcc is a command-line client for testing gRPC servers, written in Node.js but able to talk to gRPC services in any language. It starts a … | 32 | 1134 | maintenance |
| Zilliqa/zq1 Zilliqa is the C++ reference client for the Zilliqa layer-1 public blockchain, a high-throughput smart contract platform that uses sharded … | 10 | 1116 | maintenance |
| travisjeffery/jocko Jocko is a distributed commit log service implementing the Kafka protocol in Go, with built-in coordination via Serf discovery and Raft con… | 57 | 5009 | experimental |
| ionorg/ion-sfu Ion SFU is a pure Go implementation of a WebRTC Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU) that routes audio, video, and datachannel streams to scale … | 23 | 1102 | maintenance |
| rtbkit/rtbkit RTBkit is an open-source C++ framework for building and deploying Real Time Bidders for display advertising. It provides the core infrastru… | 32 | 1099 | maintenance |
| mwitkow/grpc-proxy A Go library providing a transparent gRPC reverse proxy handler that routes gRPC calls to backends without knowledge of their service seman… | 61 | 1048 | maintenance |
| luantak/ToRat ToRat is a cross-platform remote administration tool written in Go that uses the Tor network as its transport mechanism and RPC for communi… | 10 | 1038 | maintenance |
| owenliang/go-push A Go-based scalable message push server prototype designed for tens of millions of concurrent connections, split into a stateless logic ser… | 32 | 1029 | maintenance |
| Graphene Graphene is a C++ toolkit for building high-performance blockchain networks using delegated proof-of-stake consensus, originally developed … | 23 | 1029 | maintenance |
| i-am-bee/acp The Agent Communication Protocol (ACP) is an open protocol with Python and TypeScript SDKs for enabling AI agents built on different framew… | 10 | 1019 | maintenance |
| cloudera/livy Livy is an open-source REST service for interacting with Apache Spark remotely, supporting interactive Scala, Python, and R sessions as wel… | 32 | 1006 | maintenance |
| Hasor Hasor is a Java-based modular development framework comprising an IoC/AOP container, Web MVC framework, JDBC framework, RSF distributed RPC… | 76 | 1000 | maintenance |
| Aurae Aurae is a memory-safe distributed systems runtime daemon written in Rust that acts as a process manager and PID-1 initialization system fo… | 66 | 1914 | experimental |
| eBay/akutan Akutan is a distributed knowledge graph store (RDF/triple store) written in Go, designed to hold large graphs that don't fit on a single se… | 10 | 1653 | experimental |
| xodus-gaming/xodus Xodus is a Rust project aiming to bring XBOX PC (Game Pass) games to Linux and possibly macOS by implementing XBOX authentication, MSIXVC p… | 61 | 1593 | experimental |
| TanStack/bling TanStack Bling is a framework-agnostic set of transpilation utilities and macros for TypeScript, enabling isomorphic client/server RPCs (vi… | 10 | 1493 | experimental |
| kisence-mian/UnityLockStepDemo A Unity-based lockstep frame synchronization demo built with an ECS architecture, sharing game logic code between client and C# server. It … | 32 | 1153 | experimental |
| Kotlin/kotlinx-rpc kotlinx.rpc is an official JetBrains Kotlin library for adding asynchronous Remote Procedure Call (RPC) services to Kotlin Multiplatform ap… | 88 | 1077 | experimental |
| getezy/ezy Ezy is a fully-featured desktop GUI client for gRPC and gRPC-Web, supporting unary calls, streaming, metadata, and TLS. It offers tabs, key… | 23 | 1039 | experimental |
| GoogleChromeLabs/carlo Carlo is a Node.js framework that provides a headful web rendering surface for Node applications by launching a locally installed Google Ch… | 10 | 9247 | abandoned |
| bloomrpc/bloomrpc BloomRPC was a desktop GUI client for exploring and testing gRPC services, inspired by Postman and GraphQL Playground. The project was arch… | 10 | 8974 | abandoned |
| twitter-archive/snowflake Snowflake is Twitter's network service for generating unique 64-bit IDs at high scale with ordering guarantees. The original 2010 release i… | 10 | 7759 | abandoned |
| Apache Dubbo A Spring Boot starter project for Apache Dubbo that provides auto-configuration, annotation-driven setup, and production-ready actuator fea… | 56 | 5376 | abandoned |
| josephg/ShareJS ShareJS is a server and client library for concurrent collaborative editing of text and JSON documents using operational transformation (OT… | 32 | 4976 | abandoned |
| facebookarchive/RakNet RakNet is a cross-platform, open-source C++ networking engine designed for game programmers, providing reliable UDP transport, replication,… | 10 | 3422 | abandoned |
| FlockDB FlockDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant graph database built by Twitter for storing adjacency lists of directed graphs, such as social gra… | 10 | 3315 | abandoned |
| koding/kite Kite is a Go framework for building micro-services where each service (a 'kite') acts as both an RPC server and client, communicating over … | 32 | 3258 | abandoned |
| Tencent/MSEC MSEC (Mass Service Engine in Cluster) is Tencent's open-source backend development and operations engine providing RPC, name resolution, lo… | 10 | 2728 | abandoned |
| docker-archive-public/docker.libchan libchan is an ultra-lightweight Go networking library that lets network services communicate like goroutines over channels, supporting mess… | 10 | 2445 | abandoned |
| go-raft A Go library implementing the Raft distributed consensus protocol, providing leader election, log replication, configuration changes, and l… | 10 | 2429 | abandoned |
| ASP.NET Core SignalR ASP.NET Core SignalR is a library that makes it simple to add real-time web functionality to ASP.NET Core applications, letting server-side… | 10 | 2358 | abandoned |
| oyvindkinsey/easyXDM easyXDM is a JavaScript library enabling cross-domain messaging and RPC between windows, working around the Same Origin Policy via postMess… | 10 | 2354 | abandoned |
| alibaba/dubbo-spring-boot-starter A Spring Boot starter that integrates the Dubbo RPC framework, enabling publishing and consuming Dubbo services via annotations like @Enabl… | 10 | 2072 | abandoned |
| skynetservices/skynet-archive Skynet is a Go framework and communication protocol for building massively distributed services, designed to work in polyglot environments.… | 10 | 1963 | abandoned |
| apache/servicecomb-pack Apache ServiceComb Pack is an eventually consistent distributed transaction solution for microservice applications, providing Saga and TCC … | 10 | 1913 | abandoned |
| Flotype/now NowJS is a Node.js library that simplifies building real-time web applications by transparently synchronizing function calls between server… | 32 | 1897 | abandoned |
| Evmos Ethermint is a Cosmos SDK library for launching scalable, interoperable EVM-compatible blockchains with fast-finality Proof-of-Stake consen… | 10 | 1804 | abandoned |
| BeardedManStudios/ForgeNetworkingRemastered Forge Networking Remastered is a free, open-source, multi-threaded C# networking library for building multiplayer games and real-time multi… | 10 | 1479 | abandoned |
| ZanPHP ZanPHP is a coroutine-based PHP network service framework for building high-concurrency (C10K+) SOA and RPC services, using yield-based cor… | 23 | 1427 | abandoned |
| Cherami Cherami is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available message queue system developed at Uber for transporting asynchronous task… | 10 | 1406 | abandoned |
| specta-rs/rspc rspc is a Rust framework for building typesafe web backends, inspired by tRPC, that lets you define routers with queries, mutations, and su… | 50 | 1390 | abandoned |
| stepancheg/grpc-rust A pure-Rust implementation of the gRPC protocol built on HTTP/2 and Protocol Buffers, with code generation via protoc plugins. The project … | 10 | 1367 | abandoned |
| rs-ipfs/rust-ipfs An implementation of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) in Rust, providing a blockstore, libp2p integration with DHT content discovery a… | 10 | 1279 | abandoned |
| Cocos-BCX Cocos-BCX mainnet is the C++ reference implementation of a blockchain node (witness_node) and command-line wallet for the Cocos-BCX gaming … | 23 | 1277 | abandoned |
| discord/discord-rpc A C++ library for interfacing games with a locally running Discord desktop client to display Rich Presence status, with plugins for Unreal … | 23 | 1183 | abandoned |
| TChannel TChannel is a network multiplexing and framing protocol for general-purpose RPC, with peer libraries in Node.js, Python, Go, and Java. It s… | 10 | 1149 | abandoned |
| Firefly Firefly is a Python distributed game server framework built on Twisted that encapsulates networking, inter-process RPC, and database cachin… | 32 | 1088 | abandoned |
| mosuka/blast Blast is a full-text search and indexing server written in Go, built on top of Bleve, exposing gRPC and RESTful APIs. It supports clusterin… | 10 | 1073 | abandoned |
| Apache Dubbo Apache Dubbo is a high-performance RPC and microservice framework for Java (with multi-language SDKs) that provides service discovery, traf… | 86 | 41580 | stable |
| tRPC tRPC is a TypeScript-first library that lets you build end‑to‑end type‑safe APIs without schemas or code generation. It provides adapters f… | 97 | 40686 | active |
| Anoma Anoma is the reference implementation of the Anoma protocol, a distributed operating system that abstracts existing blockchains into config… | 78 | 33575 | active |
| Linera Linera is a decentralized Layer-1 blockchain protocol implemented in Rust, designed for highly scalable, low-latency Web3 applications usin… | 84 | 32056 | active |
| k6 Grafana k6 is an open-source load and performance testing tool with a Go-based engine and tests written in JavaScript or TypeScript. It sup… | 99 | 31932 | stable |
| Apache Seata Apache Seata (incubating) is an open-source, high-performance distributed transaction solution for microservices architectures. It provides… | 77 | 26008 | stable |
| SpacetimeDB SpacetimeDB is a relational database with embedded server-side logic (reducers), real-time client sync, auth, and deployment built into a s… | 96 | 25273 | active |
| Redisson Redisson is a Java client and real-time data platform for Redis and Valkey, built on Netty, offering sync, async, reactive, and RxJava3 API… | 94 | 24402 | stable |
| Redisson Redisson is a Java client and real‑time data platform for Redis and Valkey. It provides thread‑safe distributed objects, caches, locks, que… | 94 | 24402 | active |
| jina-ai/serve Jina-serve is a Python framework for building and deploying multimodal AI services that communicate via gRPC, HTTP, and WebSockets. It prov… | 36 | 21854 | active |
| gofr-dev/gofr GoFr is an opinionated Go framework that accelerates microservice development with built‑in support for databases, gRPC, HTTP, and observab… | 90 | 20855 | active |
| iii iii is a Rust-based runtime engine that composes backend services from three primitives (Worker, Trigger, Function), letting polyglot worke… | 85 | 18844 | active |
| wasp-lang/wasp Wasp is a batteries‑included full‑stack framework that lets you define React, Node.js, and Prisma apps with a single TypeScript spec file. … | 94 | 18752 | active |
| apache/arrow Apache Arrow is a language-independent columnar in-memory data format specification plus multi-language libraries (C++, Python/PyArrow, Jav… | 95 | 17212 | stable |
| a2ui-project/a2ui A2UI is an open standard and set of libraries that lets AI agents generate rich, interactive user interfaces by sending declarative JSON co… | 85 | 16723 | active |
| dogecoin/dogecoin Dogecoin Core is the reference full-node client and wallet for the Dogecoin cryptocurrency, adapted from Bitcoin Core. It lets anyone run a… | 65 | 15232 | active |
| TanStack/router TanStack Router is a fully type-safe, client-first router for React and Solid applications, with file-based routing, nested layouts, loader… | 93 | 15143 | active |
| livekit/agents LiveKit Agents is an open-source framework for building realtime, multimodal voice AI agents that run as programmable participants in LiveK… | 91 | 14870 | active |
| Vert.x Eclipse Vert.x is a polyglot toolkit for building reactive, non-blocking, asynchronous applications on the JVM, built on top of Netty. It p… | 77 | 14686 | stable |
| sogou/workflow Sogou C++ Workflow is an enterprise-level C++ framework for parallel computing and asynchronous networking, powering Sogou's back-end servi… | 87 | 14424 | stable |
| libevent libevent is a C library providing a portable event notification API that executes callbacks on file descriptor events, timeouts, and signal… | 91 | 11972 | stable |
| walkor/workerman Workerman is an asynchronous, event-driven PHP framework for building high-performance socket servers supporting HTTP, WebSocket, SSL, and … | 98 | 11550 | stable |
| bufbuild/buf Buf is a modern CLI toolchain for Protocol Buffers that replaces protoc with a fast compiler plus linting, formatting, breaking-change dete… | 97 | 11477 | active |