moon vs Nx
moon
moonrepo.dev
Nx
nx.devSide by side
| Figure | moon | Nx |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | $29/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 3 |
| Spec score · Build Automation Software | 7.4 (#29) | 8.2 (#11) |
| Spec score · Monorepo Management Tools | 7.3 (#26) | 8.2 (#9) |
| CI integrations | The CI guide provides integration examples for GitHub Actions, Buildkite, CircleCI, and Travis CI. | Nx provides CI workflow setup for GitHub, CircleCI, GitLab, Azure Pipelines, Jenkins, and Bitbucket Pipelines. |
| Task execution | Its smart hashing and incremental builds let moon avoid rerunning tasks when their inputs have not changed. | Nx builds project and task graphs, runs tasks in dependency order, and parallelizes tasks when possible. |
| What it does | moon is a Rust-based task runner and monorepo management tool for the web ecosystem. | Nx is a build system for JavaScript and TypeScript monorepos, with plugins that extend it to any language. |
Plans
In their own words
Nx
Nx is a build system for JavaScript and TypeScript monorepos, with plugins that can extend its work to other languages. It builds project and task graphs, follows task dependencies, and runs work in parallel where possible. Nx Core provides local caching; Nx Cloud adds a remote cache shared by teams and CI, and can distribute tasks across Nx Agents according to CPU and memory use. Plugins can infer tasks, generate or alter code, update dependencies, and provide executors. Documented integrations include Angular, React, Vue, Node.js, Java, .NET, Vite, Webpack, Rspack, Jest, Cypress, and Playwright. Nx also provides CI workflow setup for GitHub, CircleCI, GitLab, Azure Pipelines, Jenkins, and Bitbucket Pipelines. Nx Cloud describes trusted-branch cache writes, artifact traceability, and invalidation of artifacts made with revoked tokens. API communications are encrypted in transit, and task artifacts can be encrypted end to end before remote caching. Hobby is free forever, with monthly credits, contributor and CI-connection limits; Team is $29/month, with additional listed charges for usage, contributors, and connections.