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railwayapp/nixpacks vs rtk-ai/rtk

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, nixpacks and rtk both show healthy maintenance signals. nixpacks last saw a commit 1 month ago with 31+ active contributors, while rtk last saw a commit 1 month ago with 18+ active contributors. nixpacks is MIT-licensed while rtk is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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railwayapp/nixpacks

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 3d ago
  • 31+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 38% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

rtk-ai/rtk

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.

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 63% of recent commits
  • Last commit today
  • 18 active contributors
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

nixpacksrtk
Stars3,51343,729
Last commit1mo ago1mo ago
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Open issues97829
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage11%21%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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