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Instructor vs Haystack
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 | Instructor | Haystack |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 13,951Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 26,618 (highest of the compared values)Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| downloads | 13,080,962Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA | — |
| Last commit | 2026-09-27Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 2026-09-25Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Language | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | pythonSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Licence | MITSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | Apache-2.0Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Archived | noSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | noSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Category | structured-outputSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | ragSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Contributors | 267Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 479Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Forks | 1271Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 3198Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Maintainer | 567 LabsSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago | deepsetSeeded, unreviewedwritten 1mo ago |
| Open issues | 111Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 183Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| PyPI downloads, monthly | 27671654Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA | — |
| PyPI downloads, weekly | 13080962Synced from sourceStale1mo ago· past SLA | — |
| PyPI package | instructorSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | haystack-aiSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| PyPI released | 2026-09-09T02:25:54.888746ZSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 2026-09-24T10:49:23.742948ZSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Requires Python | <4.0,>=3.9Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | >=3.10Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| PyPI version | 1.17.0Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago | 3.2.0Synced from sourceCurrent2h ago |
| Repository | https://github.com/567-labs/instructorSynced from sourceCurrent2h ago | https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystackSynced 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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