Automated ranking

Best Go JSON Libraries

Compare go json libraries by maintenance, adoption, security, release activity, and Go ecosystem usage. Top packages in this group include GJSON, fastjson, jsoniter.

Best overall

GJSON

Highest combined package health score.

Best maintained

GJSON

Strongest maintenance signal in this category.

Most adopted

GJSON

Highest adoption signal from stars, forks, and imported-by data.

100

Ranked Packages

7 packages

#1 GJSON

Package gjson provides searching for json strings.

Go JSON Libraries 15.5K stars 10.4K imported-by 100% confidence

#2 fastjson

Package fastjson provides fast JSON parsing.

Go JSON Libraries 0 stars 895 imported-by 80% confidence

#3 jsoniter

Package jsoniter implements encoding and decoding of JSON as defined in RFC 4627 and provides interfaces with identical syntax of standard lib encoding/json.

Go JSON Libraries 13.9K stars 0 imported-by 45% confidence

#4 codec

Package codec provides a High Performance, Feature-Rich Idiomatic Go codec/encoding library for binc, msgpack, cbor, json.

Go JSON Libraries 0 stars 0 imported-by 55% confidence

#5 bel

Generate TypeScript interfaces from Go structs/interfaces. Useful for JSON RPC.

Go JSON Libraries 0 stars 2 imported-by 80% confidence

#6 jsonhandlers

JSON library to expose simple handlers that lets you easily read and write json from various sources.

Go JSON Libraries 0 stars 0 imported-by 80% confidence

#7 go-json

Go JSON Libraries 0 stars 0 imported-by 20% confidence

Comparison Matrix

score dimensions

Package	Health	Maintenance	Adoption	Security	Imported by
GJSON	94	90	100	92	10.4K
fastjson	73	75	57	92	895
jsoniter	62	12	100	70	0
codec	50	63	5	70	0
bel	44	15	15	92	2
jsonhandlers	42	15	7	92	0
go-json	41	48	5	70	0