Project comparison
Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.
[EMNLP2025] "LightRAG: Simple and Fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation"
Best matched with other inference tools.
Unified Efficient Fine-Tuning of 100+ LLMs & VLMs (ACL 2024)
Best matched with other inference tools.
Llamafactory has the larger GitHub footprint with 73.5K stars.
Lightrag is currently growing faster at +3.0K stars this week.
Lightrag has the stronger automated maintenance signal at 98/100. This is not a security or fit verdict.
Use these signals to narrow your choice, then confirm setup, license, and fit upstream.
| Signal | Lightrag | Llamafactory |
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| Evidence status | Basic listing· 23h ago | Basic listing· 23h ago |
| GitHub stars | 38.0K | 73.5K |
| Weekly growth | +3.0K | +2.3K |
| Health score | Strong98/100 |
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| Contributors | 299 | 288 |
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| Commits per week | 135.8 | 5.2 |
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| Open issues | 217 | 1.1K |
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| Language | Python | Python |
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| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
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| Last commit | 1d ago | 6d ago |
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| Last release | v1.5.5rc1 | v0.9.5 |
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