There was no choice on the market

Turborepo runs and caches. Nx adds a platform around its runner. We
wanted the runner with open plugin points, and nothing behind a paid
cloud. So we built vx.

Time added over the ideal run, 9,603 tasks	vx	Turborepo	Nx	Vite Task
Nothing changed	799 ms	927 ms	24.15 s	12.07 s
Cold build	7.57 s	9.63 s	3 min 6 s	9.01 s
Cold build: CPU the runner burns	36.64 s	1 min 12 s	5 min 34 s	25.32 s

Synthetic monorepo, 1,601 projects, 9,603 tasks, 30 levels · linux x64, 4 cores, concurrency 10 · vx 0be036747, Turborepo 2.11.10, Nx 24.0.1, Vite Task 1.4.0 · 2026-10-23 · real repos with uneven task times will differ

With nothing changed, Nx adds 24.15 s against Turborepo's 927 ms and
vx's 799 ms, Nx's daemon off as in CI. Source:
Benchmarks.

What each one is

Tool	In one line
Turborepo	runs and caches tasks from one turbo.json; remote cache over an open API
Nx	a project graph, affected and plugins; distribution and flaky detection in Nx Cloud
vx	runs and caches; where a task runs and where artifacts live are plugins

Both got a lot right. Turborepo's dependsOn syntax and pnpm-style
--filter read the way you think, and vx uses both. Nx's project graph
and affected scale to very large repos.

What vx adds

• Keys that are right more often: computed config, strict outputs, no false miss after a commit (keys from git).
• Plugins, not a service. Remote cache, remote execution, scheduling and telemetry use a public plugin API. @vzn/vx-reapi talks to any Bazel Remote Execution server. @vzn/vx-dte spreads a run over workers your own CI starts.
• Nothing to keep alive: no daemon, no account, no cloud.

The bar

vx has to do what both do. A parity suite writes each Turborepo or Nx
habit in vx and tests it against the real CLI.

Where vx differs (no --parallel, because dependsOn says the order),
the page says so. Full matrix, with upstream sources: Compared to
Turborepo, Nx, vite-task.

More at vznjs.github.io/vx.

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Originally published on the vx blog. vx is open-source (MIT) task orchestration with a build cache: vznjs.github.io/vx · GitHub.

_{Written with AI assistance.}