GORM

Judgement

What it is

Building block

What it does

The most popular ORM for Go, with associations, hooks, migrations and drivers for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite and SQL Server.

Adopt it when

You want ORM-style database access in a Go application.

Watch out

Reflection-heavy and can hide inefficient queries; many Go teams prefer sqlc or plain SQL.

Ready for

Production-ready

Runs as

Library

Built with

Go

How established

Established: started 13 years ago, latest release v1.31.2.

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

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

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

Built on GORM: 16 projects

1. 1
   LocalAI mudler

   LocalAI is the open-source AI engine. Run any model - LLMs, vision, voice, image, video - on any hardware. No GPU required.

   Complete system Usable You want a drop-in local replacement for OpenAI's API covering more than just text.

   ★ 50k MIT Go Active, pushed today
2. 2
   Gogs gogs

   The painless way to host your own Git service

   Developer tool Production-ready You want the smallest possible Git server for a few users on modest hardware.

   ★ 48k MIT Go Active, pushed 2 days ago
3. 3
   TiDB pingcap

   TiDB is built for agentic workloads that grow unpredictably, with ACID guarantees and native support for transactions, analytics, and vector search. No data silos. No noisy neighbors. No infrastructure ceiling.

   Building block Production-ready You run MySQL workloads that have outgrown one server and need to scale out without manual sharding.

   ★ 41k Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed today
4. 4
   Nightingale ccfos

   Open-source, self-hosted alerting for metrics, logs, and databases. Includes a built-in AI agent and MCP server.

   Complete system Production-ready Ops teams want a central alerting console over existing metric and log stores, popular in China as an Alertmanager alternative.

   ★ 13k Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed 6 days ago
5. 5
   Evcc evcc-io

   smart charging ☀️🚘

   Complete system Production-ready You have solar panels and a compatible wallbox and want to charge your EV from your own generation.

   ★ 7.5k MIT Go Active, pushed today
6. 6
   Blocky 0xERR0R

   Fast and lightweight DNS proxy as ad-blocker for local network with many features

   Complete system Production-ready You want Pi-hole-style network ad blocking as a single stateless binary configured in code, without a built-in web UI.

   ★ 7.1k Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed yesterday
7. 7
   Seanime 5rahim

   Open-source media server with a web interface and desktop app for anime and manga.

   Complete system Usable You watch anime from your own library and want AniList tracking built in.

   ★ 4.3k GPL-3.0 Go Active, pushed 20 days ago
8. 8
   Paisa ananthakumaran

   Paisa – Personal Finance Manager. https://paisa.fyi demo: https://demo.paisa.fyi

   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
9. 9
   Dnote dnote

   A simple command line notebook

   Developer tool Usable You want to save small learnings from the terminal and search them later.

   ★ 3.1k Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed 16 days ago
10. 10
    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
11. 11
    Flagr openflagr

    Flagr is a feature flagging, A/B testing and dynamic configuration microservice

    Complete system Usable You want a lightweight, self-hosted flag and experiment service called over HTTP from any language.

    ★ 2.6k Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed 5 days ago
12. 12
    Swiftwave swiftwave-org

    Self-hosted lightweight PaaS solution to deploy and manage your applications on any VPS [Your own self-hosted Heroku, Vercel]

    Complete system Usable You want a Heroku-style dashboard on a few cheap VPSes or ARM boards without Kubernetes.

    ★ 909 Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed 4 days ago
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
    Posta goposta

    Self-hosted email delivery platform that enables applications to send emails via HTTP APIs while handling SMTP delivery, templates, storage, security, and analytics. Fully self-hostable alternative to services like SendGrid or Mailgun.

    Complete system Experimental You want your apps' transactional email behind one self-hosted API with logs and templates.

    ★ 633 AGPL-3.0 Go Active, pushed yesterday
15. 15
    plugNmeet-server mynaparrot

    The open-source, self-hosted video conferencing software. Scalable, customizable, and with a powerful AI Meeting Agent.

    Complete system Usable You want to add branded video meetings to an LMS, website or app and host the media yourself.

    ★ 580 MIT Go Active, pushed today
16. 16
    AgentDesk huabeitech

    Open-source AI customer support system. AI-first support, human-ready operations.

    Complete system Experimental You want a self-hosted AI-first support desk in Go and are comfortable with a young project.

    ★ 278 Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed 27 days ago

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1. 1
   Transformers huggingface

   🤗 Transformers: the model-definition framework for state-of-the-art machine learning models in text, vision, audio, and multimodal models, for both inference and training.

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   Framework or platform Production-ready You train or fine-tune neural networks.

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   Tailwindcss tailwindlabs

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   Framework or platform Production-ready You build UIs in a component framework and want consistent styling without writing custom CSS files.

   ★ 98k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed today
8. 8
   Gin gin-gonic

   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.

   Framework or platform Production-ready You build HTTP APIs in Go and want the most widely used framework with many examples.

   ★ 89k MIT Go Active, pushed 24 days ago