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Guardrails vs LangChain
Every figure below carries the source that reported it and the moment it was observed. Values that failed validation are withheld rather than shown, and a dash means no source we track carries that field for that framework.
| Field | Guardrails | LangChain |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 7,443Synced from sourceCurrentjust now | 146,956 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| downloads | — | 2,026,447Synced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| Last commit | 2026-09-22Synced from sourceCurrentjust now | 2026-09-24Synced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| Language | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Licence | Apache-2.0Synced from sourceCurrentjust now | MITSynced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| Archived | noSynced from sourceCurrentjust now | noSynced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| Category | validationSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | orchestrationSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Contributors | 79Synced from sourceCurrentjust now | 3740Synced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| Forks | 708Synced from sourceCurrentjust now | 24587Synced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| Maintainer | Guardrails AISeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | LangChainSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| npm downloads, monthly | — | 10553700Synced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| npm downloads, weekly | — | 2026447Synced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| npm package | — | langchainSynced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| npm window ends | — | 2026-09-21Synced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| Open issues | 80Synced from sourceCurrentjust now | 561Synced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| PyPI package | guardrails-aiSynced from sourceCurrentjust now | langchainSynced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| PyPI released | 2026-08-14T14:22:27.750056ZSynced from sourceCurrentjust now | 2026-09-18T17:31:10.056247ZSynced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| Requires Python | <3.14,>=3.10Synced from sourceCurrentjust now | <4.0.0,>=3.10.0Synced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| PyPI version | 0.11.0Synced from sourceCurrentjust now | 1.4.2Synced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| Repository | https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrailsSynced from sourceCurrentjust now | https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchainSynced from sourceCurrentjust now |
Sources: GitHub REST API, npm registry downloads, PyPI registry metadata, pypistats.org downloads. Most recent observation just now. 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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