ggml-org/whisper.cpp vs mozilla/deepspeech
ggml-org/whisper.cpp shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, whisper.cpp shows healthier maintenance signals than deepspeech. whisper.cpp rates Healthy overall while deepspeech rates Mixed. whisper.cpp was committed to 1 day ago with 53+ active contributors, while deepspeech last saw a commit 1 year ago with 9+ active contributors. whisper.cpp is MIT-licensed while deepspeech is MPL-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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ggml-org/whisper.cpp
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.
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓53+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 10% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT 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
mozilla/deepspeech
Slowing — last commit 11mo ago
dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 11mo ago; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 11mo ago
- ✓Last commit 11mo ago
- ✓9 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 37% of recent commits)
- ✓MPL-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| whisper.cpp | deepspeech | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 53,692 | 26,754 |
| Last commit | 1d ago | 1y ago |
| License | MIT | MPL-2.0 |
| Open issues | 348 | 151 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 11% | 23% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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