oRPC
Typed RPC with OpenAPI for TypeScript: end-to-end type safety.
HTTP clients and networking npm MIT
How oRPC is used
oRPC joined the catalog on its public numbers (1,683,791 downloads a week on npm and 5,695 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 9 public GitHub projects of our scan, 8 of them set up for AI coding agents. Projects that use it most often also use Vitest (88.9%), Class Variance Authority (77.8%), Tailwind Merge (77.8%).
oRPC popularity over time
Gid Score 49: downloads 69, use in agent projects 16, GitHub stars 41, downloads trend 74 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with oRPC
| Vitest | 88.9% of oRPC projects · 4.3× more than average |
|---|---|
| Class Variance Authority | 77.8% of oRPC projects · 4.8× more than average |
| Tailwind Merge | 77.8% of oRPC projects · 4.1× more than average |
| Lucide React | 77.8% of oRPC projects · 3.9× more than average |
| TanStack Query | 66.7% of oRPC projects · 9.1× more than average |
| React Compiler Babel Plugin | 66.7% of oRPC projects · 26.9× more than average |
| Sonner | 66.7% of oRPC projects · 7.2× more than average |
| Zod | 77.8% of oRPC projects · 3.1× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
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Share of public repos configured for each agent that list oRPC as a dependency.
How oRPC is funded
Open Collective: middleapi.com
| Received, last 12 months | $8 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
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| Estimated annual budget | $120 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $17 |
| Raised since the start | $17 |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 1 |
Oct 2025Sep 2026
Money by month. First money received in Aug 2026. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @dinwwwh | 42 current sponsors |
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GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay. Sponsors of a person back all of their work.
Ways to fund oRPC
GitHub Sponsors Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install @orpc/client |
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| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (7), Next.js (2) |
| Example projects | miantiao-me/bm.md |
Alternatives to oRPC
In our scan, none of the most used tools in HTTP clients and networking does the same job as oRPC: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
More in HTTP clients and networking: Axios Requests httpx ws aiohttp websockets redis (Python) postgres