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Guardrails vs Haystack vs smolagents
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| Field | Guardrails | Haystack | smolagents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 7,587Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 26,943Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 30,260 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| downloads | — | — | 132,630Synced from sourceStale2mo ago· past SLA |
| Last commit | 2026-11-05Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 2026-11-07Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 2026-11-03Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Language | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 2mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 2mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 2mo ago |
| Licence | Apache-2.0Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | Apache-2.0Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | Apache-2.0Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Archived | noSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Category | validationSeeded, unreviewedwritten 2mo ago | ragSeeded, unreviewedwritten 2mo ago | multi-agentSeeded, unreviewedwritten 2mo ago |
| Contributors | 79Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 556Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 208Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Forks | 737Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 3406Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 3200Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Maintainer | Guardrails AISeeded, unreviewedwritten 2mo ago | deepsetSeeded, unreviewedwritten 2mo ago | Hugging FaceSeeded, unreviewedwritten 2mo ago |
| Open issues | 63Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 173Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 1048Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| PyPI downloads, monthly | — | — | 614573Synced from sourceStale2mo ago· past SLA |
| PyPI downloads, weekly | — | — | 132630Synced from sourceStale2mo ago· past SLA |
| PyPI package | guardrails-aiSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | haystack-aiSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | smolagentsSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| PyPI released | 2026-08-14T14:22:27.750056ZSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 2026-10-21T19:10:50.167432ZSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 2026-05-29T05:08:43.280962ZSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Requires Python | <3.14,>=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | >=3.11Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | >=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| PyPI version | 0.11.0Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 3.4.1Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 1.26.0Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Repository | https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrailsSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystackSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | https://github.com/huggingface/smolagentsSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
Sources: GitHub REST API, npm registry downloads, PyPI registry metadata, pypistats.org downloads. Most recent observation 3h 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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