deepseek-ai/deepseek-v3 vs karpathy/llm-council
deepseek-ai/deepseek-v3 shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, deepseek-v3 shows healthier maintenance signals than llm-council. deepseek-v3 rates Healthy overall while llm-council rates Mixed. deepseek-v3 last saw a commit 10 months ago with 26+ active contributors, while llm-council last saw a commit 7 months ago with 1+ active contributor. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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deepseek-ai/deepseek-v3 →
Healthy across all four use cases
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 8mo ago
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 8mo ago
- ✓26+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 21% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
karpathy/llm-council →
Slowing — last commit 6mo ago
no license — legally unclear; single-maintainer (no co-maintainers visible)…
no license — can't legally use code; no tests detected…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 6mo ago
- ⚠Solo or near-solo (1 contributor active in recent commits)
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 6mo ago
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
- →Fork & modify Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
- →Deploy as-is Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| deepseek-v3 | llm-council | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 103,430 | 18,509 |
| Last commit | 10mo ago | 7mo ago |
| License | MIT | — |
| Open issues | 177 | 122 |
| Has tests | — | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | — |
| Test coverage | 0% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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