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Instructor vs smolagents vs CrewAI
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| Field | Instructor | smolagents | CrewAI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 14,101Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 30,260Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 60,624 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| downloads | 13,080,962 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceStale2mo ago· past SLA | 132,630Synced from sourceStale2mo ago· past SLA | — |
| Last commit | 2026-11-06Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 2026-11-03Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 2026-11-08Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Language | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 2mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 2mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 2mo ago |
| Licence | MITSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | Apache-2.0Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | MITSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Archived | noSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Category | structured-outputSeeded, unreviewedwritten 2mo ago | multi-agentSeeded, unreviewedwritten 2mo ago | multi-agentSeeded, unreviewedwritten 2mo ago |
| Contributors | 268Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 208Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 367Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Forks | 1360Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 3200Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 9090Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Maintainer | 567 LabsSeeded, unreviewedwritten 2mo ago | Hugging FaceSeeded, unreviewedwritten 2mo ago | CrewAISeeded, unreviewedwritten 2mo ago |
| Open issues | 11Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 1048Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 1196Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| PyPI downloads, monthly | 27671654Synced from sourceStale2mo ago· past SLA | 614573Synced from sourceStale2mo ago· past SLA | — |
| PyPI downloads, weekly | 13080962Synced from sourceStale2mo ago· past SLA | 132630Synced from sourceStale2mo ago· past SLA | — |
| PyPI package | instructorSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | smolagentsSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | crewaiSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| PyPI released | 2026-09-09T02:25:54.888746ZSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 2026-05-29T05:08:43.280962ZSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 2026-11-07T02:18:43.372746ZSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Requires Python | <4.0,>=3.9Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | >=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | <3.14,>=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| PyPI version | 1.17.0Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 1.26.0Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 1.15.37Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Repository | https://github.com/567-labs/instructorSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | https://github.com/huggingface/smolagentsSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAISynced 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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