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24 alternatives to Envelop

The GraphQL plugin system

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Envelop launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
TakeShape▲129
Developer focused Headless GraphQL, CMS and SSG 🛠️
2018 · takeshape.io · its alternatives →
2
Slash GraphQL - by Dgraph Labs▲151
Launch your GraphQL backend in one click
2020 · docs.dgraph.io · its alternatives →
3
How to GraphQL▲376
Open-source tutorial website to learn GraphQL development
2017 · howtographql.com · its alternatives →
4
Prisma▲522
Build a GraphQL server with any database
2018 · prisma.io · its alternatives →
5
Graphcool▲292
The GraphQL backend for mobile & web developers
2017 · graph.cool · its alternatives →
6
GraphCMS▲264
The GraphQL CMS
2017 · hygraph.com · its alternatives →
7
GraphQL Editor▲156
Online GraphQL IDE, visualize your GraphQL Schema
2019 · graphqleditor.com · its alternatives →
8
ShapedQL▲211
The SQL engine for search, feeds, and AI agents
Jan 2026 · its alternatives →
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IrisQL▲82
GraphQL schema made easy
2020 · its alternatives →
10
GraphCMS▲310
The original GraphQL CMS, evolved.
2020 · hygraph.com · its alternatives →
11
inQuery▲75
An open source, free GraphQL monitoring tool for Node.js
2019 · tableflow.com · its alternatives →
12
DrawSQL▲246
Better entity relationship diagrams for your database
2018 · drawsql.app · its alternatives →
13
GraphQL Playground▲195
GraphQL IDE for better development workflows
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
14
CloudGraph▲122
The GraphQL API for AWS
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
15
Graphcool Framework▲207
GraphQL backend development framework
2017 · graph.cool · its alternatives →
16
Grafbase▲192
Unify the data layer with GraphQL
2023 · grafbase.com · its alternatives →
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ShapedQL – A SQL engine for multi-stage ranking and RAG▲80
Hi HN, I’m Tullie, founder of Shaped. Previously, I was a researcher at Meta AI, worked on ranking for Instagram Reels, and was a contributor to PyTorch Lightning. We built ShapedQL because we noticed that while retrieval (finding 1,000 items) has been commoditized by vector DBs, ranking (finding the best 10 items) is still an infrastructure problem. To build a decent for you feed or a RAG system with long-term memory, you usually have to put together a vector DB (Pinecone/Milvus), a feature store (Redis), an inference service, and thousands of lines of Python to handle business logic…
Jan 2026 · playground.shaped.ai · its alternatives →
18
Nebula – a distributed graph database written in C++▲178
A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability - GitHub - vesoft-inc/nebula: A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GraphQL Editor 5.0▲165
Building a GraphQL API just got a lot easier
2021 · graphqleditor.com · its alternatives →
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CoolQLCool – Turn Websites into GraphQL Accessible APIs▲124
2018 · coolql.cool · its alternatives →
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GraphQL.js▲10
Lightest GraphQL client with intelligent features.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
22
QuellQL▲84
Quell provides a caching solution for GraphQL
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Quell▲71
The lightweight caching solution for GraphQL queries
2023 · quell.dev · its alternatives →
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Build dApp front-ends using GraphQL▲74
⛓ Cleargraph is a GraphQL runtime for decentralized applications - dsys/cleargraph
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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