microsoft/autogen vs stanfordnlp/dspy
stanfordnlp/dspy shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, dspy shows healthier maintenance signals than autogen. dspy rates Healthy overall while autogen rates Mixed. autogen last saw a commit 5 months ago with 33+ active contributors, while dspy was committed to 4 weeks ago with 22+ active contributors. autogen is CC-BY-4.0-licensed while dspy is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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microsoft/autogen
Slowing — last commit 4mo ago
non-standard license (CC-BY-4.0)
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.
- ⚠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
stanfordnlp/dspy
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.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 51% of recent commits
- ⚠2 moderate-severity advisories on direct dependencies
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓22+ active contributors
- ✓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
| autogen | dspy | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 60,503 | 37,399 |
| Last commit | 5mo ago | 29d ago |
| License | CC-BY-4.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 996 | 657 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 32% | 83% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | 0 critical · 0 high · 2 moderate · 0 low |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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