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DSPy review

DSPy: The framework for programming—not prompting—language models

Updated Nov 1, 2026. Review written Nov 1, 2026 from the project's own sources; usage data refreshed every Monday.

DSPy at a glance

Category
Agent frameworks
Website
dspy.ai

Is DSPy growing? Usage data

In the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, DSPy ranked #259 on the Devtoolwatch Board and #24 in Agent frameworks, with a momentum score of 36 out of 100. Its main package had 1.3M downloads that week, +2% against its own 4-week average.

New GitHub stars per week for DSPy12 weeks from Aug 9, 2026: 490, 272, 148, 142, 210, 170, 220, 131, 115, 105, 112, 102 new stars, an average of 185 a week.Aug 9week of Oct 25
New GitHub stars per week for the last 12 weeks, from GitHub's stargazer history (today's stargazers by the week they starred).
Show the weekly numbers
New GitHub stars per week for DSPy
Week ofNew stars
Aug 9, 2026490
Aug 16, 2026272
Aug 23, 2026148
Aug 30, 2026142
Sep 6, 2026210
Sep 13, 2026170
Sep 20, 2026220
Sep 27, 2026131
Oct 4, 2026115
Oct 11, 2026105
Oct 18, 2026112
Oct 25, 2026102

The Board ranks tools by four signals each week: new stars, new stars for the repo's size, added downloads and download growth beyond the market. How the ranking works.

DSPy alternatives

Other AI agent frameworks on the Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum:

Agent frameworks ranked by momentum, the week of Oct 25–31, 2026
RankToolStarsDownloads/wk
#1Harness²Harness² is a Python framework from Google Research for recursive agent harnessing, refining an agent's prompts, tools, memory and…21.7k–
#2HyperFramesHyperFrames is an open-source framework that turns HTML, CSS, media, and seekable animations into deterministic MP4 videos, built for AI…76.6k1.5M
#3AgentScopeAgentScope is a Python agent framework with an SDK for building ReAct agents and an agent service backend with a web UI.35k51.4k
#4AG-UIAG-UI is an open, event-based protocol that standardizes how AI agents connect to user-facing frontend applications.16.9k4.6M
#5LangGraphLangGraph is a low-level orchestration framework and runtime for building, managing, and deploying long-running, stateful agents in…44.2k18.5M
#6BifrostOpen-source, high-performance AI gateway that works as your LLM gateway, MCP gateway and agent gateway. One OpenAI-compatible API for…9.3k–

All AI agent frameworks, ranked

DSPy FAQ

How popular is DSPy?

DSPy has 38.9k GitHub stars as of Nov 1, 2026. It gained 102 new stars in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, against a 12-week average of 185 a week. Its main package had 1.3M downloads that week, +2% against its own 4-week average. That made it #24 among AI agent frameworks on the Devtoolwatch Board.

What are the best alternatives to DSPy?

Other AI agent frameworks on the Devtoolwatch Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum: Harness² (#1), HyperFrames (#2), AgentScope (#3), AG-UI (#4), LangGraph (#5). The alternatives table above has their numbers.

Sources

  1. Devtoolwatch Board, the week of Oct 25–31, 2026

DSPy README badge

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