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Instructor vs smolagents vs DSPy
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| Field | Instructor | smolagents | DSPy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 13,939Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 29,463Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 38,243 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceCurrent2h 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 sourceCurrent2h ago | 2026-09-23Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 2026-09-23Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Language | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Licence | MITSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | Apache-2.0Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | MITSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Archived | noSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Category | structured-outputSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | multi-agentSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | optimisationSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Contributors | 267Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 208Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 459Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Forks | 1262Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 2991Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 3353Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Maintainer | 567 LabsSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | Hugging FaceSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | Stanford NLPSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Open issues | 90Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 827Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 726Synced from sourceCurrent2h 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 sourceCurrent2h ago | smolagentsSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | dspy-aiSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| PyPI released | 2026-09-09T02:25:54.888746ZSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 2026-05-29T05:08:43.280962ZSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 2026-08-21T23:06:20.945191ZSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Requires Python | <4.0,>=3.9Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | >=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | >=3.9Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| PyPI version | 1.17.0Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 1.26.0Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 3.3.1Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Repository | https://github.com/567-labs/instructorSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | https://github.com/huggingface/smolagentsSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspySynced 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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