Comparison

Oxc vs Biome

Oxc and Biome both land on Worth it.

Oxc

Worth it

Confidence: Medium

Free and open source, so any JavaScript team can adopt Oxlint at zero cost and near-zero risk, with community claims of 50-100x ESLint speed.

Worth it

Confidence: Medium

JS/TS teams wanting one free, fast tool instead of ESLint plus Prettier should adopt it . Ant Design and Astro already do.

Oxc versus Biome
Compare	Oxc	Biome
Verdict	Worth it	Worth it
Best for	JS/TS repos with slow lint CI	JS/TS web teams
Who it's not for	Teams needing stable type-aware linting today	ESLint power users with custom plugin stacks
Privacy	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.^⁴	No known CVEs against Biome core; one CVE hit a third-party MCP server, plus tracked npm audit warnings.
Support quality	Community GitHub only; no SLA evidence	No support evidence found
Public sentiment	Community discussion is bullish on Oxlint's speed as an ESLint alternative, while noting type-aware linting and formatter maturity still lag.^⁷	Developers on Reddit and YouTube praise Biome's speed and all-in-one design while debating whether it fully replaces ESLint and Prettier.
Biggest gotcha	No paid support; you rely on community GitHub issues¹²	Adopting Biome reformats your entire codebase . expect one big review-busting diff.