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DSPy vs CrewAI vs Semantic Kernel
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 | DSPy | CrewAI | Semantic Kernel |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 38,388Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 59,111 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 28,608Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Last commit | 2026-09-27Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 2026-09-27Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 2026-09-19Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Language | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | csharpSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Licence | MITSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | MITSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | MITSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Archived | noSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Category | optimisationSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | multi-agentSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | orchestrationSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Contributors | 461Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 340Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 416Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Forks | 3372Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 8585Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 4793Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Maintainer | Stanford NLPSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | CrewAISeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | MicrosoftSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Open issues | 739Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 506Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 338Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| PyPI package | dspy-aiSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | crewaiSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | semantic-kernelSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| PyPI released | 2026-09-25T04:04:30.339197ZSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 2026-09-16T22:10:41.471882ZSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 2026-08-06T09:56:42.518861ZSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Requires Python | >=3.9Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | <3.14,>=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | >=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| PyPI version | 3.4.0Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 1.15.22Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 1.44.1Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Repository | https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspySynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAISynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernelSynced 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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