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Rankings use public ecosystem signals. Treat them as a starting point, then confirm license, setup, safety, and fit with the upstream project.
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Heretic vs Sglang

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

Heretic

Fully automatic censorship removal for language models

Best matched with other inference tools.

26.6K
Stars
+5.9K
Weekly
69/100
Health
Sglang

SGLang is a high-performance serving framework for large language models and multimodal models.

Best matched with other inference tools.

30.6K
Stars
+3.0K
Weekly
87/100
Health

Quick Take

Adoption

Sglang has the larger GitHub footprint with 30.6K stars.

Momentum

Heretic is currently growing faster at +5.9K stars this week.

Maintenance

Sglang has the stronger automated maintenance signal at 87/100. 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.

SignalHereticSglang
Evidence statusBasic listing· 2026-10-04 09:17 UTCBasic listing· 2026-10-04 09:18 UTC
GitHub stars26.6K30.6K
Weekly growth+5.9K+3.0K
Health scoreHealthy69/100Strong87/100
Contributors341.7K
Commits per week3.5279.8
Open issues724.5K
LanguagePythonPython
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Last commit2026-07-22 14:32 UTC2026-07-22 16:43 UTC
Last releasev1.4.0v0.5.15.post1

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