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Guardrails vs CrewAI vs Pydantic AI
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| Field | Guardrails | CrewAI | Pydantic AI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 7,443Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 58,958 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 20,133Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago |
| downloads | — | — | 3,076,771Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA |
| Last commit | 2026-09-22Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 2026-09-23Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 2026-09-24Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago |
| Language | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Licence | Apache-2.0Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | MITSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago | MITSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago |
| Archived | noSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago |
| Category | validationSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | multi-agentSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | structured-outputSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Contributors | 79Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 340Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 589Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago |
| Forks | 708Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 8560Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 2768Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago |
| Maintainer | Guardrails AISeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | CrewAISeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | PydanticSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Open issues | 80Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 463Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 965Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago |
| PyPI downloads, monthly | — | — | 13478631Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA |
| PyPI downloads, weekly | — | — | 3076771Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA |
| PyPI package | guardrails-aiSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago | crewaiSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago | pydantic-aiSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago |
| PyPI released | 2026-08-14T14:22:27.750056ZSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 2026-09-16T22:10:41.471882ZSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 2026-09-24T03:23:01.147978ZSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago |
| Requires Python | <3.14,>=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | <3.14,>=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | >=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago |
| PyPI version | 0.11.0Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 1.15.22Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 2.49.0Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago |
| Repository | https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrailsSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago | https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAISynced from sourceCurrent5h ago | https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-aiSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago |
Sources: GitHub REST API, npm registry downloads, PyPI registry metadata, pypistats.org downloads. Most recent observation 5h ago. Where a row is marked, ▲ is the highest of the values shown and ▼ the lowest — arithmetic on the figures above, not a ranking or a recommendation. Rows where neither extreme is meaningful are left unmarked rather than given a direction they do not have.
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