parson VS cJSON

Compare parson vs cJSON and see what are their differences.

parson

Lightweight JSON library written in C. (by kgabis)

cJSON

Ultralightweight JSON parser in ANSI C (by DaveGamble)
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parson cJSON
2 15
1,302 10,015
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4.0 4.5
4 months ago about 1 month ago
C C
MIT License MIT License
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parson

Posts with mentions or reviews of parson. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-14.

cJSON

Posts with mentions or reviews of cJSON. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-24.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing parson and cJSON you can also consider the following projects:

json-c - https://github.com/json-c/json-c is the official code repository for json-c. See the wiki for release tarballs for download. API docs at http://json-c.github.io/json-c/

yyjson - The fastest JSON library in C

Jansson - C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data

JSMN - Jsmn is a world fastest JSON parser/tokenizer. This is the official repo replacing the old one at Bitbucket

ArduinoJson - 📟 JSON library for Arduino and embedded C++. Simple and efficient.

C-Simple-JSON-Parser - Extremely lightweight, easy-to-use & blazing fast JSON parsing library written in pure C

jsn.c - A simple JSON utility that's intended to be used for parsing, generating and manipulating configuration files.

RapidJSON - A fast JSON parser/generator for C++ with both SAX/DOM style API

Oj - Optimized JSON

JsonCpp - A C++ library for interacting with JSON.