ProtoBuf alternatives and similar packages

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Protocol Buffers

10.0 9.9 L1 ProtoBuf VS Protocol Buffers

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

9.8 5.7 L1 ProtoBuf VS Json.NET

Json.NET is a popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET

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

9.0 0.0 ProtoBuf VS MessagePack for C# (.NET, .NET Core, Unity, Xamarin)

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

9.0 0.0 L2 ProtoBuf VS Protobuf.NET

Protocol Buffers library for idiomatic .NET
Bond

8.2 0.0 L3 ProtoBuf 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 ProtoBuf VS ZeroFormatter

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

7.8 0.0 ProtoBuf VS Utf8Json

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

7.6 8.0 ProtoBuf 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 ProtoBuf VS Jil

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

7.5 6.5 L2 ProtoBuf VS ServiceStack.Text

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

7.1 0.0 ProtoBuf VS LitJSON

JSON library for the .Net framework
FileHelpers

7.0 0.0 L2 ProtoBuf 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

6.2 0.0 L2 ProtoBuf VS Msgpack-Cli

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

4.8 0.0 ProtoBuf VS Ceras

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

4.7 0.0 L5 ProtoBuf VS Wire

Binary serializer for POCO objects
FlatSharp

4.5 0.0 ProtoBuf VS FlatSharp

Fast, idiomatic C# implementation of Flatbuffers
JsonSubTypes

4.2 0.0 ProtoBuf VS JsonSubTypes

Discriminated Json Subtypes Converter implementation for .NET
FsPickler

4.2 0.0 ProtoBuf VS FsPickler

A fast multi-format message serializer for .NET
Hyperion

4.1 0.0 L5 ProtoBuf VS Hyperion

Polymorphic serialization for .NET
ObjectDumper.NET

4.0 0.0 ProtoBuf VS ObjectDumper.NET

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

3.4 0.0 ProtoBuf VS CsvExport

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

2.8 0.0 L3 ProtoBuf VS hjson-cs

Hjson for C#
Migrant

2.6 0.0 L4 ProtoBuf VS Migrant

Fast and flexible serialization framework usable on undecorated classes.
Bois

2.3 0.0 L1 ProtoBuf 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

1.2 10.0 ProtoBuf VS FluentSerializer

A fluent take on serializer libraries
TcpClientIo

0.8 0.0 ProtoBuf VS TcpClientIo

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

0.7 10.0 ProtoBuf VS Utf8JsonAsyncStreamReader

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