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
Measured from Bun’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Bun01 · 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
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Bun
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Bun, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
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.
Very close - 02
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.
Very close - 03
Home page | Yarn
Yarn, the modern JavaScript package manager
Very close - 04
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.
Very close - 05
package manager for the Node.js JavaScript runtime environment
Very close - 06
Astro
Astro builds fast content sites, powerful web applications, dynamic server APIs, and everything in-between.
Very close - 07
Skypack: search millions of open source JavaScript packages
Search millions of open source JavaScript packages on Skypack. Free to use.
Very close - 08
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.
Very close - 09
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.
Very close - 10
Launchpad
software forge
Very close - 11
Java | Oracle
Get started with Java today
Very close - 12
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.
Very close - 13
PocketBase - Open Source backend in 1 file
Open Source backend in 1 file with realtime database, authentication, file storage and admin dashboard
Very close - 14
Hoppscotch • Open source API development ecosystem
Helps you create requests faster, saving precious time on development.
Very close - 15
Cygwin
Unix subsystem for Windows machines
Very close - 16
Convex | All gas, no breakages
All gas, no breakages. Convex is the reactive backend platform that keeps up with you and your agents.
Very close - 17
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.
Close - 18
Forgejo – Beyond coding. We forge.
Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.
Close - 19
Lodash
A JavaScript utility library delivering consistency, modularity, performance, & extras.
Very close - 20
Typst: The new foundation for documents
Typst is the new foundation for documents. Sign up now and experience limitless power to write, create, and automate anything that you can fit on a page.
Close
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
What changed
Price and policy 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
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,196
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 24 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.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- Plausible asset https://plausible.io/js/script.js
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577afec8a7662d4-HAM
- Hosting
- Vercel header x-vercel-id: fra1::hptdj-1794173513752-c5b67f926ab3
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS hans.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=8tTbK_Ha58p_ky7XkbSVJD3E-1Cah_sixJwuoLV7uTo
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 14/20
- Google Workspace 13/20
- Cloudflare 11/20
- Cloudflare DNS 11/20
- Vercel 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on bun.sh 5/20
- HubSpot · not on bun.sh 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on bun.sh 4/20
- Next.js · not on bun.sh 4/20
- React · not on bun.sh 4/20
- Mailchimp · not on bun.sh 4/20
- OpenAI · not on bun.sh 4/20
- Slack · not on bun.sh 3/20
- Stripe · not on bun.sh 3/20
- Astro · not on bun.sh 3/20
- Google Analytics · not on bun.sh 3/20