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huggingface/transformers vs tencentarc/gfpgan

huggingface/transformers shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, transformers shows healthier maintenance signals than gfpgan. transformers rates Healthy overall while gfpgan rates Mixed. transformers was committed to today with 53+ active contributors, while gfpgan last saw a commit 1 year ago with 11+ active contributors. transformers is Apache-2.0-licensed while gfpgan is Other-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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huggingface/transformers

Healthy

Healthy across the board

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

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

tencentarc/gfpgan

Mixed

Stale — last commit 2y ago

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (Other); last commit was 2y ago…

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Stale — last commit 2y ago
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 90% of recent commits
  • Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
  • 11 active contributors
  • Other licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: clarify license terms

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

transformersgfpgan
Stars161,97137,447
Last committoday1y ago
LicenseApache-2.0Other
Open issues2,460403
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage5%85%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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