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Guardrails vs awesome-llm-apps

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

Guardrails

NeMo Guardrails is an open-source toolkit for easily adding programmable guardrails to LLM-based conversational systems.

Best matched with other agent tools.

7.0K
Stars
+895
Weekly
54/100
Health
awesome-llm-apps

100+ AI Agents, Agent Skills and RAG Apps - Free and Open Source.

Best matched with other agent tools.

140.7K
Stars
+16.4K
Weekly
76/100
Health

Quick Take

Adoption

awesome-llm-apps has the larger GitHub footprint with 140.7K stars.

Momentum

awesome-llm-apps is currently growing faster at +16.4K stars this week.

Maintenance

awesome-llm-apps has the stronger automated maintenance signal at 76/100. 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.

SignalGuardrailsawesome-llm-apps
Evidence statusNeeds recheck· 2026-08-24 05:12 UTCVerified snapshot· 2026-10-04 09:19 UTC
GitHub stars7.0K140.7K
Weekly growth+895+16.4K
Health scoreWatch54/100Healthy76/100
Contributors12897
Commits per week13.911.4
Open issues2139
LanguagePythonPython
LicenseNOASSERTIONApache-2.0
Last commit2026-08-21 21:51 UTC2026-09-30 20:31 UTC
Last releasev0.23.0N/A

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