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24 alternatives to Open-Source GraphQL CDN/Edge Cache with Cloudflare, Fastly, and Fly.io

How to add edge caching to federated GraphQL APIs with the Cosmo Router, using Automatic Persisted Queries and Cache-Control so any CDN like Cloudflare, Fastly, or Fly.io can cache responses without vendor lock-in.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Open-Source GraphQL CDN/Edge Cache with Cloudflare, Fastly, and Fly.io launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Stellate is now open for everybody with edge caching, query analytics, error tracking and protection from malicious queries for your GraphQL APIs.

    2021 · graphcdn.io · its alternatives →

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    GraphCDN▲360

    The GraphQL CDN with caching, analytics and security

    2021 · stellate.co · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I have been making this Cozo database since half a year ago, and now it is ready for public release. My initial motivation is that I want a graph database. Lightweight and easy to use, like SQLite. Powerful and performant, like Postgres. I found none of the existing solutions good enough. Deciding to roll my own, I need to choose a query language. I am familiar with Cypher but consider it not much of an improvement over CTE in SQL (Cypher is sometimes notationally more convenient, but not more expressive). I like Gremlin but would prefer something more declarative. Experimentations…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Prisma▲522

    Build a GraphQL server with any database

    2018 · prisma.io · its alternatives →

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    The fully-featured GraphQL Server

    2022 · the-guild.dev · its alternatives →

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    Grafbase▲192

    Unify the data layer with GraphQL

    2023 · grafbase.com · its alternatives →

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    FastQL▲13

    Smart GraphQL caching and CDN

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    GraphQL database platform

    2018 · app.prisma.io · its alternatives →

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    Unlock the full power of GraphQL

    2017 · apollographql.com · its alternatives →

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    GraphCMS▲264

    The GraphQL CMS

    2017 · hygraph.com · its alternatives →

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    Speed up your site for no extra cost, no plugin required

    2022 · kinsta.com · its alternatives →

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    TakeShape▲129

    Developer focused Headless GraphQL, CMS and SSG 🛠️

    2018 · takeshape.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi there! This is Yury, a co-founder. We've been busy for a while building EdgeDB Cloud and now it's finally here. EdgeDB Cloud is pretty cool and takes full advantage of our database. You get declarative schema, strict typing throughout, great performance, a query language that's best of GraphQL & SQL, and many many other perks. The Cloud itself is quite unique because of EdgeDB. Our query language gives you composability - so you can fetch everything for your page or API endpoint in one network request. And our protocol and client libraries give you auto recovery on network errors,…

    2023 · edgedb.com · its alternatives →

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    Graphweaver is an open-source GraphQL API Server that can connect many data sources to create a single API. Create a headless CMS, API Gateway, BaaS or use it as a BFF.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A performant cacheing alternative to Apollo and Reay

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn any website to API by several clicks (serverless and support SPA!) - t9tio/cloudquery

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A faster client-side caching library for GraphQL

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Zero-config database and storage — no Redis, no S3, no setup

    Aug 2026 · deployowl.com · its alternatives →

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    Spanly▲77

    Hi HN, I'm Tim, solo founder of Spanly (https://spanly.com). I spent the last year working on MCP gateways, and debugging them with nothing better than HTTP-level APM was painful. Spanly runs its own MCP server and monitors it with itself, so I've been the first user of everything below. Spanly is observability for MCP servers, the protocol that lets agents like Claude and Cursor call your product's tools. It's a sidecar proxy, so it works with any language and requires zero code changes. Live demo (no signup): https://app.spanly.com/share/demo Sidecar source…

    Jun 2026 · spanly.com · its alternatives →

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    Distributed caching and task execution for Nx and Lerna

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    🦉⚡️Serverless, distributed vector database as an API - TimeSurgeLabs/athenadb

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    QuellQL▲84

    Quell provides a caching solution for GraphQL

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An ultrafast, lightweight caching solution for GraphQL

    2023 · its alternatives →

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