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Guardrails vs LangChain vs AutoGen
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| Field | Guardrails | LangChain | AutoGen |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 7,444Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago | 147,021 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago | 61,149Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago |
| downloads | — | 2,026,447 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago | 47,487Synced from sourceStale7d ago |
| Last commit | 2026-09-25Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago | 2026-09-24Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago | 2026-04-15Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago |
| Language | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Licence | Apache-2.0Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago | MITSynced from sourceCurrent1h ago | CC-BY-4.0Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago |
| Archived | noSynced from sourceCurrent1h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent1h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent1h ago |
| Category | validationSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | orchestrationSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | multi-agentSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Contributors | 79Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago | 3740Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago | 534Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago |
| Forks | 708Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago | 24603Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago | 9251Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago |
| Maintainer | Guardrails AISeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | LangChainSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | MicrosoftSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| npm downloads, monthly | — | 10553700Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago | — |
| npm downloads, weekly | — | 2026447Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago | — |
| npm package | — | langchainSynced from sourceCurrent1h ago | — |
| npm window ends | — | 2026-09-21Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago | — |
| Open issues | 81Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago | 569Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago | 1099Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago |
| PyPI downloads, monthly | — | — | 263297Synced from sourceStale7d ago |
| PyPI downloads, weekly | — | — | 47487Synced from sourceStale7d ago |
| PyPI package | guardrails-aiSynced from sourceCurrent1h ago | langchainSynced from sourceCurrent1h ago | pyautogenSynced from sourceCurrent1h ago |
| PyPI released | 2026-08-14T14:22:27.750056ZSynced from sourceCurrent1h ago | 2026-09-18T17:31:10.056247ZSynced from sourceCurrent1h ago | 2025-07-15T00:37:26.170442ZSynced from sourceCurrent1h ago |
| Requires Python | <3.14,>=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago | <4.0.0,>=3.10.0Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago | >=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago |
| PyPI version | 0.11.0Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago | 1.4.2Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago | 0.10.0Synced from sourceCurrent1h ago |
| Repository | https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrailsSynced from sourceCurrent1h ago | https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchainSynced from sourceCurrent1h ago | https://github.com/microsoft/autogenSynced from sourceCurrent1h ago |
Sources: GitHub REST API, npm registry downloads, PyPI registry metadata, pypistats.org downloads. Most recent observation 1h 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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