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petals vs transformers

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petals

bigscience-workshop/petals

10kpushed Sep 7, 2024
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transformers

huggingface/transformers

162kpushed Jul 7, 2026
petalstransformers
TaglineRun LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style🤗 Transformers: the model-definition framework for state-of-the-art machine learning models
Stars10k162k
Forks62134k
Open issues1122.5k
LanguagePythonPython
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Last pushedSep 7, 2024Jul 7, 2026
CategoriesInference & Serving, LLM FrameworksModel Training, Data & Retrieval, LLM Frameworks
Typed relationshippetals integrates transformers

Choose petals if…

  • Leaner open-issue backlog (112).
  • Also covers Inference & Serving.

Choose transformers if…

  • More widely adopted - 162k stars vs 10k.
  • More recently updated (last pushed Jul 7, 2026).
  • Also covers Model Training, Data & Retrieval.

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