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Guardrails vs Vercel AI SDK vs Semantic Kernel
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| Field | Guardrails | Vercel AI SDK | Semantic Kernel |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 7,443Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 26,922Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 28,593 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| downloads | — | 17,883,737Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | — |
| Last commit | 2026-09-22Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 2026-09-24Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 2026-09-19Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| Language | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | typescriptSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | csharpSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Licence | Apache-2.0Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | — | MITSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| Archived | noSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| Category | validationSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | orchestrationSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | orchestrationSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Contributors | 79Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 715Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 416Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| Forks | 708Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 5180Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 4787Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| Maintainer | Guardrails AISeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | VercelSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | MicrosoftSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| npm downloads, monthly | — | 87791075Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | — |
| npm downloads, weekly | — | 17883737Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | — |
| npm package | — | aiSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | — |
| npm window ends | — | 2026-09-21Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | — |
| Open issues | 80Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 1462Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 320Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| PyPI package | guardrails-aiSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | — | semantic-kernelSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| PyPI released | 2026-08-14T14:22:27.750056ZSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | — | 2026-08-06T09:56:42.518861ZSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| Requires Python | <3.14,>=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | — | >=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| PyPI version | 0.11.0Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | — | 1.44.1Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| Repository | https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrailsSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | https://github.com/vercel/aiSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernelSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
Sources: GitHub REST API, npm registry downloads, PyPI registry metadata, pypistats.org downloads. Most recent observation 4h 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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