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Alignment Handbook vs Llamafactory

Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.

Alignment Handbook

Robust recipes to align language models with human and AI preferences

Best matched with other inference tools.

5.7K
Stars
+12
Weekly
45/100
Health
Llamafactory

Unified Efficient Fine-Tuning of 100+ LLMs & VLMs (ACL 2024)

Best matched with other inference tools.

73.5K
Stars
+2.3K
Weekly
75/100
Health

Quick Take

Adoption

Llamafactory has the larger GitHub footprint with 73.5K stars.

Momentum

Llamafactory is currently growing faster at +2.3K stars this week.

Maintenance

Llamafactory has the stronger automated maintenance signal at 75/100. This is not a security or fit verdict.

Side-by-side evidence

Use these signals to narrow your choice, then confirm setup, license, and fit upstream.

SignalAlignment HandbookLlamafactory
Evidence statusBasic listing· 2026-10-04 09:18 UTCBasic listing· 2026-10-04 09:18 UTC
GitHub stars5.7K73.5K
Weekly growth+12+2.3K
Health scoreWatch45/100Healthy75/100
Contributors36288
Commits per week0.25.2
Open issues1001.1K
LanguagePythonPython
LicenseApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Last commit2026-09-23 14:09 UTC2026-07-17 14:50 UTC
Last releaseN/Av0.9.5

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