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Protocol Buffers

10.0 10.0 L1 Json.NET VS Protocol Buffers

Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
Protobuf.NET

9.1 6.2 L2 Json.NET VS Protobuf.NET

Protocol Buffers library for idiomatic .NET

WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS

The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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MessagePack for C# (.NET, .NET Core, Unity, Xamarin)

9.0 6.8 Json.NET VS MessagePack for C# (.NET, .NET Core, Unity, Xamarin)

Extremely Fast MessagePack Serializer for C#(.NET, .NET Core, Unity, Xamarin). / msgpack.org[C#]
Bond

8.1 0.0 L3 Json.NET VS Bond

Bond is a cross-platform framework for working with schematized data. It supports cross-language de/serialization and powerful generic mechanisms for efficiently manipulating data. Bond is broadly used at Microsoft in high scale services.
ZeroFormatter

8.0 0.0 Json.NET VS ZeroFormatter

DISCONTINUED. Infinitely Fast Deserializer for .NET, .NET Core and Unity.
Utf8Json

7.8 0.0 Json.NET VS Utf8Json

DISCONTINUED. Definitely Fastest and Zero Allocation JSON Serializer for C#(NET, .NET Core, Unity, Xamarin).
Magicodes.IE

7.7 7.8 Json.NET VS Magicodes.IE

Import and export general library, support Dto import and export, template export, fancy export and dynamic export, support Excel, Csv, Word, Pdf and Html.
Jil

7.6 0.0 L1 Json.NET VS Jil

Fast .NET JSON (De)Serializer, Built On Sigil
ServiceStack.Text

7.5 6.5 L2 Json.NET VS ServiceStack.Text

DISCONTINUED. .NET's fastest JSON, JSV and CSV Text Serializers
LitJSON

7.2 7.0 Json.NET VS LitJSON

JSON library for the .Net framework
FileHelpers

6.9 0.0 L2 Json.NET VS FileHelpers

The FileHelpers are a free and easy to use .NET library to read/write data from fixed length or delimited records in files, strings or streams
Msgpack-Cli

6.3 1.6 L2 Json.NET VS Msgpack-Cli

MessagePack implementation for Common Language Infrastructure / msgpack.org[C#]
Ceras

4.8 0.0 Json.NET VS Ceras

Universal binary serializer for a wide variety of scenarios https://discord.gg/FGaCX4c
FlatSharp

4.7 7.8 Json.NET VS FlatSharp

Fast, idiomatic C# implementation of Flatbuffers
Wire

4.7 0.0 L5 Json.NET VS Wire

Binary serializer for POCO objects
ProtoBuf

4.7 0.0 L1 Json.NET VS ProtoBuf

C# code generator for reading and writing the protocol buffers format
JsonSubTypes

4.4 3.4 Json.NET VS JsonSubTypes

Discriminated Json Subtypes Converter implementation for .NET
ObjectDumper.NET

4.3 5.0 Json.NET VS ObjectDumper.NET

ObjectDumper is a utility which aims to serialize C# objects to string for debugging and logging purposes.
FsPickler

4.3 0.0 Json.NET VS FsPickler

A fast multi-format message serializer for .NET
Hyperion

4.1 3.4 L5 Json.NET VS Hyperion

Polymorphic serialization for .NET
CsvExport

3.5 4.3 Json.NET VS CsvExport

Very simple CSV-export tool for C#
hjson-cs

2.8 0.0 L3 Json.NET VS hjson-cs

Hjson for C#
Migrant

2.6 5.2 L4 Json.NET VS Migrant

Fast and flexible serialization framework usable on undecorated classes.
Bois

2.3 5.5 L1 Json.NET VS Bois

Salar.Bois is a compact, fast and powerful binary serializer for .NET Framework. With Bois you can serialize your existing objects with almost no change.
FluentSerializer

1.3 7.8 Json.NET VS FluentSerializer

A fluent take on serializer libraries
VarDump

1.2 7.5 Json.NET VS VarDump

VarDump is a utility for serialization runtime objects to C# or Visual Basic string.
TcpClientIo

0.9 4.3 Json.NET VS TcpClientIo

TcpClientIo Wrapper of TcpClient what help focus on WHAT you transfer over TCP, not HOW
Utf8JsonAsyncStreamReader

0.8 3.7 Json.NET VS Utf8JsonAsyncStreamReader

An Asynchronous forward-only streaming JSON parser and deserializer based on System.Text.Json.Utf8JsonReader.