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RWKV LM vs Llamafactory
Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.
RWKV LM
RWKV (pronounced RwaKuv) is an RNN with great LLM performance, which can also be directly trained like a GPT transformer (parallelizable). We are at RWKV-7 "Goose". So it's combining the best of RNN and transformer - great performance, linear time, constant space (no kv-cache), fast training, infinite ctx_len, and free sentence embedding.
Best matched with other inference tools.
14.6K
Stars
+126
Weekly
37/100
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.
| Signal | RWKV LM | Llamafactory |
|---|---|---|
| Evidence status | Basic listing· 2026-10-04 09:17 UTC | Basic listing· 2026-10-04 09:18 UTC |
| GitHub stars | 14.6K | 73.5K |
| Weekly growth | +126 | +2.3K |
| Health score | Caution37/100 | Healthy75/100 |
| Contributors | 5 | 288 |
| Commits per week | 2.3 | 5.2 |
| Open issues | 156 | 1.1K |
| Language | Python | Python |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Last commit | 2026-07-23 08:56 UTC | 2026-07-17 14:50 UTC |
| Last release | 5.00 | v0.9.5 |
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