10 alternatives to axum

tokio-rs/axum — HTTP routing and request-handling library for Rust that focuses on ergonomics and modularity (27,629 stars, MIT, integration, infra, auth).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 108 licence-cleared components from tokio-rs/axum itself.

The alternatives in detail

• farion1231/claude-code-mux
  High-performance AI routing proxy built in Rust with automatic failover, priority-based routing, and support for 15+ providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Cerebras, Minimax, Kimi, etc.)
  score 4.6/10 · MIT permissive · 5 stars · 21 components · search them
• encode/httpx
  A next generation HTTP client for Python. 🦋
  score 4.7/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 15,804 stars · 21 components · search them
• galyarderlabs/galyarder-route
  Self-hosted routing layer for model and agent traffic. Derived from OmniRoute.
  score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 5 stars · 1,168 components · search them
• urllib3/urllib3
  urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python
  score 4.6/10 · MIT permissive · 4,081 stars · 41 components · search them
• vapor/vapor
  💧 A server-side Swift HTTP web framework.
  score 6.0/10 · MIT permissive · 26,234 stars · 203 components · search them · alternatives
• sindresorhus/got
  🌐 Human-friendly and powerful HTTP request library for Node.js
  score 4.6/10 · MIT permissive · 14,953 stars · 23 components · search them
• sstpnk/free-ai-model-router
  Daily ETL that discovers, benchmarks, and ranks free AI coding models — generates a verified LiteLLM routing config with automatic fallback.
  score 6.7/10 · MIT permissive · 2 stars · 24 components · search them
• corvyn-ai/corvyn
  Open source AI routing proxy that automatically routes requests to free models and shows costs in your local currency — ₹ ₦ R$ ₱ and 60+ more. Works with OpenCode and Claude Code.
  score 5.7/10 · MIT permissive · 6 stars · 12 components · search them
• adrgs/requestrepo
  Analyze HTTP, DNS and SMTP requests and create custom responses and DNS records for your subdomain
  score 7.4/10 · MIT permissive · 545 stars · 55 components · search them
• enix/kube-image-keeper
  kuik is a container image routing, mirroring (caching) and replication system for Kubernetes
  score 4.8/10 · MIT permissive · 757 stars · 94 components · search them

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