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Gin

Gin is a high-performance HTTP web framework written in Go. It provides a Martini-like API but with significantly better performance—up to 40 times faster—thanks to httprouter. Gin is designed for building REST APIs, web applications, and microservices.

Gin is an open-source libraries and runtimes project on GitHub under the MIT license (permissive), with 89k stars. It is built with Go. Its last push was 24 days ago.

Stars
89k
License
MIT
Activity
Active
Latest release
v1.12.0

Code on GitHub Website

Judgement

What it is
Framework or platform
What it does
A fast HTTP web framework for Go with routing, middleware and JSON binding, used for REST APIs and microservices.
Adopt it when
You build HTTP APIs in Go and want the most widely used framework with many examples.
Watch out
Go's standard library router now covers many basic needs, so check whether you need a framework at all.
Ready for
Production-ready
Runs as
Library
Built with
Go
How established
Established: started 12 years ago, latest release v1.12.0.
What the license allows
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Go

Follow it down: Gin → Go → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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    ★ 186k MIT Go Active, pushed today
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    Milvus milvus-io

    Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search

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    ★ 47k Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed today
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    ★ 29k GPL-3.0 Go Active, pushed 13 days ago
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    ★ 13k Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed today
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    ★ 8.1k Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed today
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    ★ 6.9k AGPL-3.0 Go Active, pushed yesterday
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    ezBookkeeping mayswind

    ezBookkeeping is an open source, powerful, self-hosted personal finance app that is easy to use.

    Complete system Usable You want a lightweight expense tracker you can run on a small server and use from your phone browser.

    ★ 6k MIT Go Active, pushed today
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    Paisa ananthakumaran

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    Complete system Usable You keep or want to keep personal books in ledger format and want visual reports on top.

    ★ 3.2k AGPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed 16 days ago
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    🗄 CLI tool for backup your databases, files to cloud storages in schedully.

    Developer tool Usable You want scheduled database dumps to object storage from one config file on a small server.

    ★ 3.1k MIT Go Active, pushed 3 months ago
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    Paperless-gpt icereed

    Use LLMs and LLM Vision (OCR) to handle paperless-ngx - Document Digitalization powered by AI

    Integration Usable You run Paperless-ngx and want better OCR and metadata through a local or cloud model.

    ★ 2.8k MIT Go Active, pushed 13 days ago
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    Self-hosted application server for schema-driven APIs, identity, files, automation, integrations, realtime, metering, and protocols.

    Framework or platform Usable You want a self-hosted backend-as-a-service in one binary and prefer config over writing CRUD code.

    ★ 1.9k LGPL-3.0 Go Active, pushed today
  13. 13
    Sponge go-dev-frame

    A powerful and easy-to-use Go development framework that enables you to effortlessly build stable, reliable, and high-performance backend services with a "low-code" approach.

    Framework or platform Usable You build many CRUD-style Go back-end services and want them generated from your database schema.

    ★ 2.9k MIT Go Slowing, pushed 11 months ago
  14. 14
    Epinio epinio

    Opinionated platform that runs on Kubernetes, that takes you from App to URL in one step.

    Complete system Usable You want a Cloud Foundry-style push experience on a Kubernetes cluster you already run.

    ★ 618 Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed today
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    Blnk blnkfinance

    Blnk is an open-source ledger & financial core for shipping fintech products fast.

    Building block Usable You are building wallets, payments or lending products and need a ledger rather than writing one.

    ★ 577 Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed today
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    Warmbly warmbly

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    Complete system Experimental A B2B sales team wants self-hosted cold outreach instead of Instantly or Lemlist.

    ★ 492 Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed 6 days ago
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    Utask ovh

    µTask is an automation engine that models and executes business processes declared in yaml. ✏️📋

    Complete system Production-ready An ops team wants auditable, templated runbooks with approvals on a Go and Postgres stack.

    ★ 1.4k BSD-3-Clause Go Slowing, pushed 3 months ago
  18. 18
    Hexya hexya-erp

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    Framework or platform Experimental A Go team wants to build Odoo-like business modules in a compiled, type-safe language.

    ★ 460 Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed 43 days ago
  19. 19
    Go-admin hequan2017

    go web api，包含gin+gorm+jwt+rbac等。

    Template or starter Experimental You are learning how to wire JWT and Casbin permissions into a Gin service.

    ★ 422 MIT Go Active, pushed 35 days ago
  20. 20
    Iot-master god-jason

    物联大师是开源免费的物联网平台，集成了标准Modbus和主流PLC等多种协议，支持数据采集、公式计算、定时控制、自动控制、异常报警、流量监控、Web组态、远程调试等功能，适用于大部分物联网和工业互联网应用场景。

    Complete system Experimental A small Chinese-speaking integrator wants a lightweight IoT collector that runs on modest hardware.

    ★ 869 GPL-3.0 JavaScript Slowing, pushed 4 months ago

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