The Guild

The Guild is a profitable, bootstrapped GraphQL infrastructure company that builds and maintains open-source tools for teams and enterprises. Active in the GraphQL ecosystem since its early years, it develops products designed to support the full GraphQL lifecycle, from schema development and federation to production monitoring and delivery. Its flagship Hive platform provides a schema registry, a Rust-based federation router, and observability tools, with features such as composition checks, usage analytics, and enterprise controls.

Hive is MIT-licensed and can be self-hosted or used as a managed service. The Guild also offers Stellate, a GraphQL-aware content delivery network that provides edge caching, rate limiting, and query protection for GraphQL APIs, including those outside Hive. Its broader ecosystem includes GraphQL Code Generator, GraphQL Yoga, GraphQL-Tools, Mesh, SOFA, Scalars, and Inspector.

The company supports gradual adoption, allowing teams to use individual components or combine them. The Guild also emphasizes security, offering SOC 2 Type II attestation, SSO, SCIM, audit logs, and deployment options including air-gapped environments