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langchain-ai/langchain vs microsoft/autogen

langchain-ai/langchain shows stronger signals overall

As of September 2026, langchain shows healthier maintenance signals than autogen. langchain rates Healthy overall while autogen rates Mixed. langchain was committed to 2 weeks ago with 20+ active contributors, while autogen last saw a commit 5 months ago with 33+ active contributors. langchain is MIT-licensed while autogen is CC-BY-4.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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langchain-ai/langchain

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

HealthyDependency

No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.

  • Last commit today
  • 20 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 32% 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

microsoft/autogen

Mixed

Slowing — last commit 4mo ago

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (CC-BY-4.0)

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.

  • Slowing — last commit 4mo ago
  • Non-standard license (CC-BY-4.0) — review terms
  • Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
  • Last commit 4mo ago
  • 33+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 41% of recent commits)
  • CC-BY-4.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: clarify license terms

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

langchainautogen
Stars145,65960,503
Last commit14d ago5mo ago
LicenseMITCC-BY-4.0
Open issues447996
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage60%32%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeC
Cycles0
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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