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Guardrails vs Vercel AI SDK vs DSPy
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| Field | Guardrails | Vercel AI SDK | DSPy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 7,443Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 26,922Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 38,243 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| downloads | — | 17,883,737Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | — |
| Last commit | 2026-09-22Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 2026-09-24Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 2026-09-23Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Language | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | typescriptSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Licence | Apache-2.0Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | — | MITSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Archived | noSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Category | validationSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | orchestrationSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | optimisationSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Contributors | 79Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 715Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 459Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Forks | 708Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 5180Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 3353Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Maintainer | Guardrails AISeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | VercelSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | Stanford NLPSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| npm downloads, monthly | — | 87791075Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | — |
| npm downloads, weekly | — | 17883737Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | — |
| npm package | — | aiSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | — |
| npm window ends | — | 2026-09-21Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | — |
| Open issues | 80Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 1462Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 726Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| PyPI package | guardrails-aiSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | — | dspy-aiSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| PyPI released | 2026-08-14T14:22:27.750056ZSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | — | 2026-08-21T23:06:20.945191ZSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Requires Python | <3.14,>=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | — | >=3.9Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| PyPI version | 0.11.0Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | — | 3.3.1Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Repository | https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrailsSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | https://github.com/vercel/aiSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspySynced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
Sources: GitHub REST API, npm registry downloads, PyPI registry metadata, pypistats.org downloads. Most recent observation 2h 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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