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Guardrails vs Vercel AI SDK vs LlamaIndex
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| Field | Guardrails | Vercel AI SDK | LlamaIndex |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 7,456Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 27,001Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 52,334 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| downloads | — | 29,813,554 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 149,503Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| 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 | typescriptSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Licence | 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 | ragSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Contributors | 79Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 719Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 2001Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| Forks | 707Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 5207Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 8232Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| Maintainer | Guardrails AISeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | VercelSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | LlamaIndexSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| npm downloads, monthly | — | 92989638Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 445795Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| npm downloads, weekly | — | 29813554Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 149503Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| npm package | — | aiSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | llamaindexSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| npm window ends | — | 2026-09-26Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 2026-09-26Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| Open issues | 79Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 1450Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 896Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| PyPI package | guardrails-aiSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | — | llama-indexSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| PyPI released | 2026-08-14T14:22:27.750056ZSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | — | 2026-09-21T16:22:20.056831ZSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| Requires Python | <3.14,>=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | — | <4.0,>=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| PyPI version | 0.11.0Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | — | 0.14.25Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| Repository | https://github.com/guardrails-ai/guardrailsSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | https://github.com/vercel/aiSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | https://github.com/run-llama/llama_indexSynced 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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