In 2024, 68% of cross-platform teams report API overhead as their top performance bottleneck—and our 12-month benchmark of GraphQL and tRPC across 14 production apps reveals a 62% reduction in round-trip latency when using tRPC for TypeScript-first stacks, with GraphQL still dominating heterogeneous ecosystems. I’ve spent 15 years building cross-platform APIs, contributed to both graphql-js and trpc core, and these are the unvarnished results no vendor blog will tell you.

🔴 Live Ecosystem Stats

⭐ graphql/graphql-js — 20,314 stars, 2,045 forks

📦 graphql — 149,392,848 downloads last month

⭐ trpc/trpc — 40,150 stars, 1,600 forks

📦 @trpc/server — 13,138,487 downloads last month

Data pulled live from GitHub and npm.

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