Open Source Apollo GraphQL Alternatives

The best open source alternative to Apollo GraphQL is GraphQL. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked eight alternatives to Apollo GraphQL and seven of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Apollo GraphQL are Django REST Framework, GraphQL Mesh, GraphiQL and GraphQL Playground.

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  1. GraphQL icon
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    GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data. GraphQL provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API, gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more, makes it...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. Django REST framework is a powerful and flexible toolkit for building Web APIs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Django
     
  3. GraphQL Mesh allows you to use GraphQL query language to access data in remote APIs that don't run GraphQL (and also ones that do run GraphQL). It can be used as a gateway to other services or run as a local GraphQL schema that aggregates data from remote APIs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    GraphiQL is an in-browser IDE for exploring GraphQL. Contribute to graphql/graphiql development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. GraphQL Playground is an IDE for better development workflows (GraphQL Subscriptions, interactive docs & collaboration). You can download the Electron-based desktop app or use the web version at graphqlbin.com.

    5 GraphQL Playground alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. GraphQL Portal is an open-source tool, existing in the SAAS version too, that lets developers connect any data-source (REST/SOAP/gRPC API, databases, files, or other GraphQL APIs) using many available data-connectors.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  7. GraphQLZero is a free, online GraphQL API that you can use to get fake data from a real backend while testing or prototyping your app. It is inspired and powered by JSONPlaceholder, serving the same dataset but in the form of a GraphQL server.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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