Echo vs Grape: What are the differences?

Developers describe Echo as "Golang HTTP server framework". Echo is a fast and unfancy HTTP server framework for Go (Golang). Up to 10x faster than the rest. On the other hand, Grape is detailed as "An opinionated micro-framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby". Grape is a REST-like API micro-framework for Ruby. It's designed to run on Rack or complement existing web application frameworks such as Rails and Sinatra by providing a simple DSL to easily develop RESTful APIs. It has built-in support for common conventions, including multiple formats, subdomain/prefix restriction, content negotiation, versioning and much more.

Echo and Grape can be categorized as "Microframeworks (Backend)" tools.

"Highly customizable" is the primary reason why developers consider Echo over the competitors, whereas "Well documented" was stated as the key factor in picking Grape.

Echo and Grape are both open source tools. It seems that Echo with 14.4K GitHub stars and 1.31K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Grape with 8.87K GitHub stars and 1.09K GitHub forks.

Hazeorid, Orangesys Inc., and CampusBox are some of the popular companies that use Echo, whereas Grape is used by DivShot, TaxJar, and Master Of Code Global. Echo has a broader approval, being mentioned in 18 company stacks & 12 developers stacks; compared to Grape, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.