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deepset-ai

haystack-ai

Open-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with explicit control over retrieval, routing, memory, and generation. Built for scalable agents, RAG, multimodal applications, semantic search, and conversational systems.
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haystack-ai has 1M monthly downloads and 26K GitHub stars. Version 2.30.2 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2023.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is built on top of docstring-parser, filetype and haystack-experimental. It is used by 200 tracked packages, including haystack-experimental, pgvector-haystack and cohere-haystack.

GitHub topics include nlp, question-answering and pytorch.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (deepset-ai/haystack) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
35.7K
Week
244.0K
Month
1.0M
Stars
25.8K
Forks
2.9K
Issues
71
Version
2.30.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
91
Adoption
80
Community
80
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,038,124
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
1,038,124
Stars
25,825
Stars per 1k downloads
24.88
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
• Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
34,857
Month daily avg
34,604
Momentum
+0.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
Apache-2.0
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
18 days ago
Total releases
452
Releases/year
136.5
• Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
394
Monthly downloads
1,038,124
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
86
 
Issue Burden
2.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
32.8
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
13.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 13.1K
Windows 6.2K
macOS 5.9K

Python Versions

3.10
40.6% 10.2K
3.14
34.8% 8.7K
3.12
13.3% 3.3K
3.13
7.0% 1.8K
3.11
4.2% 1.1K

Top Countries

1. US US
23.1K
2. DE DE
865
3. NL NL
814
4. SG SG
315
5. GB GB
117
6. IE IE
96
7. IN IN
87
8. FI FI
68
9. FR FR
60
10. MY MY
48

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0
First Release
March 15, 2023
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
2.30.2
Total Releases
452
Contributors
394
Open PRs
33
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
BERT QA Question-Answering Reader Retriever albert language-model mrc roberta search semantic-search squad transfer-learning transformer
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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