Automated ranking

Best Go HTTP Routers

Compare go http routers by maintenance, adoption, security, release activity, and Go ecosystem usage. Top packages in this group include Chi, lura, Gorilla Mux.

Best overall

Chi

Highest combined package health score.

Best maintained

Chi

Strongest maintenance signal in this category.

Most adopted

Chi

Highest adoption signal from stars, forks, and imported-by data.

100

Ranked Packages

11 packages

#1 Chi

Package chi is a small, idiomatic and composable router for building HTTP services.

Go HTTP Routers 22.2K stars 17.3K imported-by 100% confidence

#2 lura

Ultra performant API Gateway with middlewares. A project hosted at The Linux Foundation

Go HTTP Routers 6.8K stars 0 imported-by 100% confidence

#3 Gorilla Mux

Package mux implements a request router and dispatcher.

Go HTTP Routers 21.8K stars 99.5K imported-by 100% confidence

#4 httprouter

Package httprouter is a trie based high performance HTTP request router.

Go HTTP Routers 17.1K stars 27.4K imported-by 100% confidence

#5 bunrouter

Golang HTTP router

Go HTTP Routers 781 stars 141 imported-by 95% confidence

#6 rux

Package rux is a simple and fast request router for golang HTTP applications.

Go HTTP Routers 0 stars 17 imported-by 80% confidence

#7 vestigo

Package vestigo implements a performant, stand-alone, HTTP compliant URL Router for go web applications.

Go HTTP Routers 0 stars 126 imported-by 80% confidence

#8 lars

Package lars - Library Access/Retrieval System, is a fast radix-tree based, zero allocation, HTTP router for Go.

Go HTTP Routers 0 stars 66 imported-by 80% confidence

#9 ngamux

Package ngamux is simple HTTP router for Go that compatible with net/http, the standard library to serve HTTP.

Go HTTP Routers 0 stars 0 imported-by 25% confidence

#10 pure

:non-potable_water: Is a lightweight HTTP router that sticks to the std "net/http" implementation

Go HTTP Routers 0 stars 0 imported-by 25% confidence

#11 v5

Package ship has implemented a flexible, powerful, high performance and minimalist Go Web HTTP router framework, which is inspired by echo and httprouter.

Go HTTP Routers 0 stars 0 imported-by 20% confidence

Comparison Matrix

score dimensions

Package	Health	Maintenance	Adoption	Security	Imported by
Chi	97	95	100	92	17.3K
lura	93	95	94	92	0
Gorilla Mux	80	38	100	92	99.5K
httprouter	80	38	100	92	27.4K
bunrouter	78	45	99	92	141
rux	62	63	28	92	17
vestigo	50	15	43	92	126
lars	49	15	38	92	66
ngamux	44	48	7	70	0
pure	44	48	7	70	0
v5	43	48	5	70	0