Retrofit VS OkHttp

Compare Retrofit vs OkHttp and see what are their differences.

Retrofit

A type-safe HTTP client for Android and the JVM (by square)

OkHttp

Square’s meticulous HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM. (by square)
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Retrofit OkHttp
47 43
42,550 45,175
0.4% 0.4%
9.0 9.3
1 day ago 2 days ago
HTML Kotlin
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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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.

OkHttp

Posts with mentions or reviews of OkHttp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-19.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

Feign - Feign makes writing java http clients easier

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

Netty - Netty project - an event-driven asynchronous network application framework

Android Volley

Jersey - Eclipse Jersey Project - Read our Wiki:

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

RESTEasy - An Implementation of the Jakarta RESTful Web Services Specification

gRPC - The Java gRPC implementation. HTTP/2 based RPC