bun.sh

Bun

Who runs Bun, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest JavaScript runtime alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Deno

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Bun

Bun bun.sh

Bundle, install, and run JavaScript & TypeScript — all in Bun. Bun is a fast JavaScript runtime & toolkit with a bundler, test runner, and npm-compatible package manager built in.

Wikidata: JavaScript runtime

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Bun tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

None of the 19 alternatives below has fewer; 7 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
1 tool
EU company
1 tool

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Bun

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Bun, thumbs down if it isn’t.

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    Deno deno.com English No trackers

    Deno, the drop-in JavaScript runtime for Node developers

    A drop-in JavaScript runtime with built-in TypeScript, npm support, and security by default. Run your existing Node project on Deno with no setup.

    Compare Deno with Bun →
  2. 02
    Node.js nodejs.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Node.js — Run JavaScript Everywhere

    Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.

    Compare Node.js with Bun →
  3. 03
    yarnpkg.com English No trackers

    Home page | Yarn

    Yarn, the modern JavaScript package manager

    Compare yarnpkg.com with Bun →
  4. 04
    JSR jsr.io English No trackers

    JSR: the JavaScript Registry

    JSR is the open-source package registry for modern JavaScript. JSR natively supports TypeScript, and works with all JS runtimes and package managers.

    Compare JSR with Bun →
  5. 05
    npmjs.com Top 10K English

    package manager for the Node.js JavaScript runtime environment

    Compare npmjs.com with Bun →
  6. 06
    Astro astro.build English No trackers

    Astro

    Astro builds fast content sites, powerful web applications, dynamic server APIs, and everything in-between.

    Compare Astro with Bun →
  7. 07
    Skypack skypack.dev English 2 trackers

    Skypack: search millions of open source JavaScript packages

    Search millions of open source JavaScript packages on Skypack. Free to use.

    Compare Skypack with Bun →
  8. 08
    Wiki.js js.wiki English No trackers

    Next Generation Open Source Wiki — Wiki.js

    A wiki that scales from a weekend side project to thousands of contributors. Self-hosted, incredibly fast, and entirely yours to shape.

    Compare Wiki.js with Bun →
  9. 09
    Strapi strapi.io English 3 trackers

    Strapi - Open-Source TypeScript Headless CMS

    Strapi is the next-gen headless CMS, open-source, JavaScript/TypeScript, enabling content-rich experiences to be created, managed and exposed to any device.

    Compare Strapi with Bun →
  10. 10
    Launchpad launchpad.net Top 1K English No trackers

    Launchpad

    software forge

    Compare Launchpad with Bun →
  11. 11
    Java java.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Java | Oracle

    Get started with Java today

    Compare Java with Bun →
  12. 12
    Laravel laravel.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

    Laravel - The clean stack for Artisans and agents

    Laravel is a framework for building modern web apps and AI agents. Expressive syntax, built-in tools, and everything you need to ship fast.

    Compare Laravel with Bun →
  13. 13
    Gitea gitea.com Top 10K 1 tracker

    Gitea Official Website

    Gitea - Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD

    Compare Gitea with Bun →
  14. 14
    PocketBase pocketbase.io English No trackers

    PocketBase - Open Source backend in 1 file

    Open Source backend in 1 file with realtime database, authentication, file storage and admin dashboard

    Compare PocketBase with Bun →
  15. 15
    Hoppscotch hoppscotch.io English No trackers

    Hoppscotch • Open source API development ecosystem

    Helps you create requests faster, saving precious time on development.

    Compare Hoppscotch with Bun →
  16. 16
    Cygwin cygwin.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Cygwin

    Unix subsystem for Windows machines

    Compare Cygwin with Bun →
  17. 17
    HAProxy haproxy.org 2 trackers

    HAProxy - The Reliable, High Perf. TCP/HTTP Load Balancer

    Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer

    Compare HAProxy with Bun →
  18. 18
    Convex convex.dev English No trackers

    Convex | All gas, no breakages

    All gas, no breakages. Convex is the reactive backend platform that keeps up with you and your agents.

    Compare Convex with Bun →
  19. 19
    StackBlitz stackblitz.com English 2 trackers

    StackBlitz | Instant Dev Environments | Click. Code. Done.

    StackBlitz is the collaborative browser-based IDE for web developers. StackBlitz eliminates time-consuming local configuration and lets developers spend more time building.

    Compare StackBlitz with Bun →
  20. 20
    HTTPie httpie.io 2 trackers

    HTTPie – API testing client that flows with you

    Making APIs simple and intuitive for those building the tools of our time.

    Compare HTTPie with Bun →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Bun’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Bun uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Bun adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 7 technologies
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k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
384-d
Query
25 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Bun’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

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