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The best Echo alternatives

6 tools that do a similar job to Echo, 6 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.

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Echo

A minimalist Go web framework for building fast HTTP servers and APIs.

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    Gin

    Open source · MIT · ★ 89.5k

    A fast Go web framework for building HTTP APIs and web services with a simple routing API.

    Best for: Go developers building REST APIs; Teams writing microservices in Go

    Full review Echo vs Gin
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    chi

    Open source · MIT · ★ 23k

    A small, standard-library-compatible router for building Go HTTP and REST API services.

    Best for: Go developers building REST API services; Teams that want routing built on the standard net/http package

    Full review Echo vs chi
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    Fiber

    Open source · MIT · ★ 40.2k

    An Express-style web framework for building fast HTTP servers and APIs in Go.

    Best for: Go developers building REST APIs or web backends; Developers coming from Node.js and Express who want a familiar style in Go

    Full review Echo vs Fiber
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    Vapor

    Open source · MIT · ★ 26.2k

    A web framework for building websites and APIs in the Swift programming language.

    Best for: Swift developers who want to build backend services in the same language as their iOS or macOS apps; Teams building JSON APIs or web backends who already work in Swift

    Full review Echo vs Vapor
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    go-zero

    Open source · MIT · ★ 33.4k

    A Go framework for building web and RPC microservices, with a code generator called goctl.

    Best for: Go developers building REST APIs or microservices; Teams that want built-in resilience features like rate limiting and circuit breakers without writing them by hand

    Full review Echo vs go-zero
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    http-proxy-middleware

    Open source · MIT · ★ 11.1k

    Node.js middleware that forwards HTTP requests from your server to another target, with simple configuration.

    Best for: Node.js developers running an Express, Connect, or Next.js dev server who need to forward /api requests to a backend; Teams that want to rewrite paths or route requests to different targets based on host or path

    Full review Echo vs http-proxy-middleware

How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Echo. We don't take payment for placement.