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Instructor vs Haystack vs smolagents
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| Field | Instructor | Haystack | smolagents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 13,939Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 26,584Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 29,463 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| downloads | 13,080,962 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA | — | 132,630Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA |
| Last commit | 2026-09-22Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 2026-09-23Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 2026-09-23Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Language | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Licence | MITSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | Apache-2.0Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | Apache-2.0Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Archived | noSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Category | structured-outputSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | ragSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | multi-agentSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Contributors | 267Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 475Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 208Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Forks | 1262Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 3176Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 2991Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Maintainer | 567 LabsSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | deepsetSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | Hugging FaceSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Open issues | 90Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 168Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 827Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| PyPI downloads, monthly | 27671654Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA | — | 614573Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA |
| PyPI downloads, weekly | 13080962Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA | — | 132630Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA |
| PyPI package | instructorSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | haystack-aiSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | smolagentsSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| PyPI released | 2026-09-09T02:25:54.888746ZSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 2026-09-03T09:27:43.312258ZSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 2026-05-29T05:08:43.280962ZSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Requires Python | <4.0,>=3.9Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | >=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | >=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| PyPI version | 1.17.0Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 3.1.1Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 1.26.0Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Repository | https://github.com/567-labs/instructorSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystackSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | https://github.com/huggingface/smolagentsSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
Sources: GitHub REST API, npm registry downloads, PyPI registry metadata, pypistats.org downloads. Most recent observation 3h 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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