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microsoft/autogen vs pydantic/pydantic-ai

pydantic/pydantic-ai shows stronger signals overall

As of September 2026, pydantic-ai shows healthier maintenance signals than autogen. pydantic-ai rates Healthy overall while autogen rates Mixed. autogen last saw a commit 5 months ago with 33+ active contributors, while pydantic-ai was committed to 4 weeks ago with 19+ active contributors. autogen is CC-BY-4.0-licensed while pydantic-ai is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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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

pydantic/pydantic-ai

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
  • 19 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 28% 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

autogenpydantic-ai
Stars60,50319,378
Last commit5mo ago29d ago
LicenseCC-BY-4.0MIT
Open issues996721
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage32%100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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