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DSPy vs smolagents vs Mastra
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| Field | DSPy | smolagents | Mastra |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 38,388 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 29,530Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 28,378Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| downloads | — | 132,630Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA | 1,980,114 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Last commit | 2026-09-27Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 2026-09-23Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 2026-09-28Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Language | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | typescriptSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Licence | MITSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | Apache-2.0Synced 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 | 208Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 682Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Forks | 3372Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 2999Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 2871Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Maintainer | Stanford NLPSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | Hugging FaceSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | MastraSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| npm downloads, monthly | — | — | 5868462Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| npm downloads, weekly | — | — | 1980114Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| npm package | — | — | @mastra/coreSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| npm window ends | — | — | 2026-09-26Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| Open issues | 739Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 853Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 477Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago |
| PyPI downloads, monthly | — | 614573Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA | — |
| PyPI downloads, weekly | — | 132630Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA | — |
| PyPI package | dspy-aiSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | smolagentsSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | — |
| PyPI released | 2026-09-25T04:04:30.339197ZSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 2026-05-29T05:08:43.280962ZSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | — |
| Requires Python | >=3.9Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | >=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | — |
| PyPI version | 3.4.0Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | 1.26.0Synced from sourceCurrent3h ago | — |
| Repository | https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspySynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | https://github.com/huggingface/smolagentsSynced from sourceCurrent3h ago | https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastraSynced 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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