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Instructor vs DSPy
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 | Instructor | DSPy |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 13,939Synced from sourceCurrentjust now | 38,243 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| downloads | 13,080,962Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA | — |
| Last commit | 2026-09-22Synced from sourceCurrentjust now | 2026-09-23Synced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| Language | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Licence | MITSynced from sourceCurrentjust now | MITSynced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| Archived | noSynced from sourceCurrentjust now | noSynced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| Category | structured-outputSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | optimisationSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Contributors | 267Synced from sourceCurrentjust now | 459Synced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| Forks | 1262Synced from sourceCurrentjust now | 3353Synced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| Maintainer | 567 LabsSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | Stanford NLPSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Open issues | 90Synced from sourceCurrentjust now | 726Synced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| PyPI downloads, monthly | 27671654Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA | — |
| PyPI downloads, weekly | 13080962Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA | — |
| PyPI package | instructorSynced from sourceCurrentjust now | dspy-aiSynced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| PyPI released | 2026-09-09T02:25:54.888746ZSynced from sourceCurrentjust now | 2026-08-21T23:06:20.945191ZSynced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| Requires Python | <4.0,>=3.9Synced from sourceCurrentjust now | >=3.9Synced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| PyPI version | 1.17.0Synced from sourceCurrentjust now | 3.3.1Synced from sourceCurrentjust now |
| Repository | https://github.com/567-labs/instructorSynced from sourceCurrentjust now | https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspySynced 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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