GraphQL Is Still Better Than tRPC 2.0 for Public APIs: 1-Year Case Study at Stripe

GraphQL Is Still Better Than tRPC 2.0 for Public APIs: 1-Year Case Study at Stripe Stripe has long prioritized developer experience for its public APIs, migrating from REST to GraphQL in 2019 to reduce overfetching, simplify endpoint discovery, and unify access to its payments, billing, and fraud prevention tools. In early 2023, as tRPC 2.0 gained popularity for type-safe internal APIs, our public API team launched a 1-year pilot to test tRPC 2.0 against our existing GraphQL implementation for 1