10 alternatives to go-zero

zeromicro/go-zero — A cloud-native Go microservices framework with cli tool for productivity. (33,423 stars, MIT, database, integration, 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 497 licence-cleared components from zeromicro/go-zero itself.

The alternatives in detail

• go-kratos/kratos
  Your ultimate Go microservices framework for the cloud-native era.
  score 7.4/10 · MIT permissive · 25,983 stars · 175 components · search them
• grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway
  gRPC to JSON proxy generator following the gRPC HTTP spec
  score 8.3/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 20,009 stars · 54 components · search them
• gofr-dev/gofr
  An opinionated GoLang framework for accelerated microservice development. Built in support for databases and observability.
  score 5.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 20,834 stars · 345 components · search them
• foxminchan/bookworm
  An Aspire reference architecture for cloud-native microservices and agentic AI with MCP, A2A & AG-UI
  score 7.2/10 · MIT permissive · 507 stars · 864 components · search them
• gruelbox/transaction-outbox
  Reliable eventual consistency for Microservices
  score 7.9/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 346 stars · 53 components · search them
• hemerajs/hemera
  🔬 Writing reliable & fault-tolerant microservices in Node.js https://hemerajs.github.io/hemera/
  score 6.6/10 · MIT permissive · 808 stars · 52 components · search them
• mehdihadeli/go-food-delivery-microservices
  🍕 A practical food delivery microservices, built with Golang, Domain-Driven Design, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Vertical Slice Architecture, Event-Driven Architecture, and the latest technologies.
  score 5.2/10 · MIT permissive · 1,139 stars · 376 components · search them
• spring-cloud/spring-cloud-stream
  Framework for building Event-Driven Microservices
  score 5.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,070 stars · 323 components · search them
• aserto-dev/topaz
  Cloud-native authorization for modern applications and APIs
  score 5.0/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,369 stars · 285 components · search them
• vardius/go-api-boilerplate
  Go Server/API boilerplate using best practices DDD CQRS ES gRPC
  score 6.1/10 · MIT permissive · 967 stars · 142 components · search them

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