GraphQL Hive vs Mercurius
GraphQL Hive
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| Figure | GraphQL Hive | Mercurius |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $20/mo | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 0 |
| Spec score · GraphQL Tools | 8.3 (#4) | 6.5 (#24) |
| Integrations | The documentation lists integrations or reference implementations for Apollo Gateway, Apollo Router, Apollo Server, GraphQL Yoga, GraphQL Ruby, GQLGen, and OpenTelemetry. | The integrations documentation lists Nexus, TypeGraphQL, GQLoom, Prisma, mercurius-integration-testing, OpenTelemetry, and NestJS. |
| Product | Hive is an MIT-licensed GraphQL platform for managing, collaborating on, and serving GraphQL projects. | Mercurius is a GraphQL adapter for Fastify for implementing GraphQL servers and gateways. |
| Security | Hive Gateway lists JWT authentication, role-based access control, persisted documents, rate limiting, and protections such as CORS and CSRF prevention. | Mercurius includes CSRF prevention, which the documentation says is disabled by default and must be enabled in configuration. |
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GraphQL Hive
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