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Guardrails vs Agno vs DSPy
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| Field | Guardrails | Agno | DSPy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 7,456Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 42,358 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 38,388Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| downloads | — | 520,626Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA | — |
| Last commit | 2026-09-25Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 2026-09-28Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 2026-09-27Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| Language | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Licence | Apache-2.0Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | Apache-2.0Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | MITSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| Archived | noSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| Category | validationSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | orchestrationSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | optimisationSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Contributors | 79Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 585Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 461Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| Forks | 707Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 6023Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 3372Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| Maintainer | Guardrails AISeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | AgnoSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | Stanford NLPSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Open issues | 79Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 1689Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 739Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| PyPI downloads, monthly | — | 2183543Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA | — |
| PyPI downloads, weekly | — | 520626Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA | — |
| PyPI package | guardrails-aiSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | agnoSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | dspy-aiSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| PyPI released | 2026-08-14T14:22:27.750056ZSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 2026-09-23T13:15:37.685447ZSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 2026-09-25T04:04:30.339197ZSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| Requires Python | <3.14,>=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | <4,>=3.9Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | >=3.9Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| PyPI version | 0.11.0Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 3.0.11Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 3.4.0Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| Repository | https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrailsSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | https://github.com/agno-agi/agnoSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspySynced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
Sources: GitHub REST API, npm registry downloads, PyPI registry metadata, pypistats.org downloads. Most recent observation 4h 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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