Comparison

Oxc vs ESLint

Oxc and ESLint 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

Buy if your team writes JavaScript . ESLint is the free, default linter with a huge plugin ecosystem.

Oxc versus ESLint
Compare	Oxc	ESLint
Verdict	Worth it	Worth it
Best for	JS/TS repos with slow lint CI	JavaScript/TypeScript dev teams
Who it's not for	Teams needing stable type-aware linting today	Non-technical teams . nothing to lint
Privacy	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.^⁴	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.¹⁴
Support quality	Community GitHub only; no SLA evidence	Community OSS; no support data 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	Practitioner sources overwhelmingly treat ESLint as the default JavaScript linter across tutorials, CI setups, and production stacks.¹⁵
Biggest gotcha	No paid support; you rely on community GitHub issues¹²	Free, but real cost is engineer time: config, plugins, and major-version upgrade migrations.¹⁶