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Haystack vs smolagents vs Semantic Kernel
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| Field | Haystack | smolagents | Semantic Kernel |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 26,618Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 29,530 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 28,608Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| downloads | — | 132,630Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA | — |
| Last commit | 2026-09-25Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 2026-09-23Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 2026-09-19Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| Language | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | csharpSeeded, 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 | ragSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | multi-agentSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | orchestrationSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Contributors | 479Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 208Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 416Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| Forks | 3198Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 2999Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 4793Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| Maintainer | deepsetSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | Hugging FaceSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | MicrosoftSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Open issues | 183Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 853Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 338Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| PyPI downloads, monthly | — | 614573Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA | — |
| PyPI downloads, weekly | — | 132630Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA | — |
| PyPI package | haystack-aiSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | smolagentsSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | semantic-kernelSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| PyPI released | 2026-09-24T10:49:23.742948ZSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 2026-05-29T05:08:43.280962ZSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 2026-08-06T09:56:42.518861ZSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| Requires Python | >=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | >=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | >=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| PyPI version | 3.2.0Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 1.26.0Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago | 1.44.1Synced from sourceCurrent4h ago |
| Repository | https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystackSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | https://github.com/huggingface/smolagentsSynced from sourceCurrent4h ago | https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernelSynced 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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