huggingface/transformers vs karpathy/nanogpt
huggingface/transformers shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, transformers shows healthier maintenance signals than nanogpt. transformers rates Healthy overall while nanogpt rates Mixed. transformers was committed to today with 53+ active contributors, while nanogpt last saw a commit 7 months ago with 26+ active contributors. transformers is Apache-2.0-licensed while nanogpt is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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huggingface/transformers →
Healthy across the board
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.
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓53+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 7% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 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
karpathy/nanogpt →
Slowing — last commit 6mo ago
no tests detected; no CI workflows detected
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 6mo ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 66% of recent commits
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 6mo ago
- ✓26+ active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Mixed → Healthy if: add a test suite
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| transformers | nanogpt | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 161,971 | 57,744 |
| Last commit | today | 7mo ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 2,460 | 347 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | — |
| Test coverage | 5% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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