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TanStack Query vs tRPC
Which one should you ship with? Here is the side-by-side panel verdict, pricing read, reviewer split, and community vote comparison.
Developer Tools
TanStack Query
Powerful async state management
100%
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Community
Free
Entry
TanStack Query (React Query) manages server state with caching, background updates, stale-while-revalidate, and optimistic updates. Works with React, Vue, Solid, and Angular.
Developer Tools
tRPC
End-to-end type-safe APIs
100%
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Community
Free
Entry
tRPC provides end-to-end type safety between client and server without code generation or schemas. TypeScript types flow automatically across the network boundary.
Reviewer scorecard
“Eliminates 90% of server state management boilerplate. Caching, refetching, and mutations just work.”
“Types from server to client with zero code generation. The DX is magical — change a server type, client updates instantly.”
“Solved server state management so well that it changed how React apps are built. The devtools are excellent.”
“For TypeScript full-stack apps, tRPC eliminates an entire category of bugs. No schemas, no codegen, just types.”
“TanStack Query's multi-framework support and the broader TanStack ecosystem are defining modern web data management.”
“tRPC proved that type-safe APIs don't need schemas or code generation. The idea is being adopted everywhere.”
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