encode/starlette vs tornadoweb/tornado
encode/starlette shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, starlette shows healthier maintenance signals than tornado. starlette rates Healthy overall while tornado rates Mixed. starlette was committed to 1 week ago with 26+ active contributors, while tornado last saw a commit 1 month ago with 13+ active contributors. starlette is BSD-3-Clause-licensed while tornado is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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encode/starlette
Healthy across all four use cases
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 62% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓26+ active contributors
- ✓BSD-3-Clause licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
tornadoweb/tornado
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 82% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 2w ago
- ✓13 active contributors
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| starlette | tornado | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 12,597 | 22,179 |
| Last commit | 10d ago | 1mo ago |
| License | BSD-3-Clause | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 42 | 252 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 76% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | — |
| Cycles | 8 | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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