Feign VS Retrofit

Compare Feign vs Retrofit and see what are their differences.

Feign

Feign makes writing java http clients easier (by OpenFeign)

Retrofit

A type-safe HTTP client for Android and the JVM (by square)
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Feign Retrofit
6 47
9,266 42,613
0.7% 0.3%
9.3 9.1
6 days ago 15 days ago
Java HTML
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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Feign

Posts with mentions or reviews of Feign. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-19.

Retrofit

Posts with mentions or reviews of Retrofit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-23.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Feign and Retrofit you can also consider the following projects:

Jersey - Eclipse Jersey Project - Read our Wiki:

OkHttp - Square’s meticulous HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM.

RESTEasy - An Implementation of the Jakarta RESTful Web Services Specification

Async Http Client - Asynchronous Http and WebSocket Client library for Java

Swagger - The content of swagger.io

unirest-java - Unirest in Java: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library.

Dropwizard - A damn simple library for building production-ready RESTful web services.

Android Volley

openapi-generator - OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries (SDK generation), server stubs, documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec (v2, v3)

microprofile-rest-client - MicroProfile Rest Client

android-async-http - An asynchronous, callback-based Http client for Android built on top of Apache's HttpClient libraries.