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Turborepo

Vercel's high-performance monorepo build system. Remote caching, task pipelines, and incremental builds. Drop into any pnpm or npm workspace.

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Turborepo is the monorepo task runner from Vercel. You declare a pipeline of tasks (build, lint, test) with their dependencies in turbo.json and Turborepo schedules them in parallel, caches outputs, and skips work that has not changed. Remote caching shares build artifacts across CI and developer machines. The setup cost is low compared to Nx, especially for teams already on pnpm workspaces. Best fit for JavaScript and TypeScript monorepos that want speed without a heavy framework on top.

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Turborepo at a glance

Last verified October 17, 2026

Pricing: Turborepo - free and open source (MIT)
Vercel Remote Cache - free on all Vercel plans, even if you do not host on Vercel
Self-hosted remote cache - free, using any server that implements the Remote Cache API
Install: curl -fsSL https://turborepo.dev/install | sh
npx create-turbo@latest
npm install turbo --save-dev
Models: Not an AI tool. It runs tasks across npm, pnpm, Yarn, Bun, nub and aube workspaces. Since 2.11 it can also put Cargo, uv and go.work workspaces into the same task graph (experimental). Remote caching works with Vercel Remote Cache or with a self-hosted server that implements the Remote Cache API.
Recent changes: Oct 16v2.11.9 includes performance work: large cache archives are compressed with multithreaded zstd, and Bun and Berry lockfiles parse faster.
Sep 18Turborepo 2.11 adds experimental native support for Rust, Python and Go, starts up to 4x faster than 2.9, supports devEngines.packageManager plus the nub and aube package managers, and adds turbo prune --production.

Sources: Installation, Remote Caching, Turborepo blog, Turborepo 2.11, GitHub releases

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