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Haystack vs smolagents
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 | Haystack | smolagents |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 26,618Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 29,530 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| downloads | — | 132,630Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA |
| Last commit | 2026-09-25Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 2026-09-23Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Language | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Licence | Apache-2.0Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | Apache-2.0Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Archived | noSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Category | ragSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | multi-agentSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Contributors | 479Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 208Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Forks | 3198Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 2999Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Maintainer | deepsetSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | Hugging FaceSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Open issues | 183Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 853Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| PyPI downloads, monthly | — | 614573Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA |
| PyPI downloads, weekly | — | 132630Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA |
| PyPI package | haystack-aiSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | smolagentsSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| PyPI released | 2026-09-24T10:49:23.742948ZSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 2026-05-29T05:08:43.280962ZSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Requires Python | >=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | >=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| PyPI version | 3.2.0Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 1.26.0Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Repository | https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystackSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | https://github.com/huggingface/smolagentsSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
Sources: GitHub REST API, npm registry downloads, PyPI registry metadata, pypistats.org downloads. Most recent observation 2h 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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