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Haystack vs Pydantic AI vs smolagents
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| Field | Haystack | Pydantic AI | smolagents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 26,584Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 20,133Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 29,463 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| downloads | — | 3,076,771 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA | 132,630Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA |
| Last commit | 2026-09-23Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 2026-09-24Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 2026-09-23Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Language | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Licence | Apache-2.0Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | MITSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | Apache-2.0Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Archived | noSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Category | ragSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | structured-outputSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | multi-agentSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Contributors | 475Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 589Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 208Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Forks | 3176Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 2768Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 2991Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Maintainer | deepsetSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | PydanticSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | Hugging FaceSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Open issues | 168Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 965Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 827Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| PyPI downloads, monthly | — | 13478631Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA | 614573Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA |
| PyPI downloads, weekly | — | 3076771Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA | 132630Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA |
| PyPI package | haystack-aiSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | pydantic-aiSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | smolagentsSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| PyPI released | 2026-09-03T09:27:43.312258ZSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 2026-09-24T03:23:01.147978ZSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 2026-05-29T05:08:43.280962ZSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Requires Python | >=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | >=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | >=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| PyPI version | 3.1.1Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 2.49.0Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 1.26.0Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Repository | https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystackSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-aiSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | https://github.com/huggingface/smolagentsSynced 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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