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Guardrails vs LangChain vs smolagents
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| Field | Guardrails | LangChain | smolagents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 7,456Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 147,178 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 29,530Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago |
| downloads | — | 3,201,198 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 132,630Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA |
| Last commit | 2026-09-25Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 2026-09-27Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 2026-09-23Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago |
| Language | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Licence | Apache-2.0Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | MITSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago | Apache-2.0Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago |
| Archived | noSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago |
| Category | validationSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | orchestrationSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | multi-agentSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Contributors | 79Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 3741Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 208Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago |
| Forks | 707Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 24634Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 2999Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago |
| Maintainer | Guardrails AISeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | LangChainSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | Hugging FaceSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| npm downloads, monthly | — | 10682493Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | — |
| npm downloads, weekly | — | 3201198Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | — |
| npm package | — | langchainSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago | — |
| npm window ends | — | 2026-09-26Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | — |
| Open issues | 79Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 569Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 853Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago |
| PyPI downloads, monthly | — | — | 614573Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA |
| PyPI downloads, weekly | — | — | 132630Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA |
| PyPI package | guardrails-aiSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago | langchainSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago | smolagentsSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago |
| PyPI released | 2026-08-14T14:22:27.750056ZSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 2026-09-18T17:31:10.056247ZSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 2026-05-29T05:08:43.280962ZSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago |
| Requires Python | <3.14,>=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | <4.0.0,>=3.10.0Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | >=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago |
| PyPI version | 0.11.0Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 1.4.2Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago | 1.26.0Synced from sourceCurrent5h ago |
| Repository | https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrailsSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago | https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchainSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago | https://github.com/huggingface/smolagentsSynced from sourceCurrent5h ago |
Sources: GitHub REST API, npm registry downloads, PyPI registry metadata, pypistats.org downloads. Most recent observation 5h 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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