[sillyquiet]

In my opinion, it makes very little sense to compare GraphQL to REST from a client perspective - if you are only going to be hitting a single API endpoint, use REST (or gRPC I guess). The overhead of GraphQL doesn't make it worth using at that scale.

The strength and real benefit of GraphQL comes in when you have to assemble a UI from multiple data sources and reconcile that into a negotiable schema between the server and the client.

[fastball]

Though there are also solutions like Hasura where GraphQL makes sense at approximately any scale because it allows you to create an API from nothing in about 10 minutes.