langchain-ai/langchain vs run-llama/llama_index
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, langchain and llama_index both show healthy maintenance signals. langchain was committed to 1 week ago with 20+ active contributors, while llama_index was committed to 4 weeks ago with 63+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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langchain-ai/langchain
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 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
run-llama/llama_index
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 today
- ✓63+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 5% 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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| langchain | llama_index | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 145,659 | 51,739 |
| Last commit | 12d ago | 29d ago |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Open issues | 447 | 629 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 60% | 75% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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