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Honcho review

Memory library for building stateful agents

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

Honcho at a glance

Category
Model SDKs and gateways
Website
honcho.dev/docs

Is Honcho growing? Usage data

In the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, Honcho ranked #145 on the Devtoolwatch Board and #4 in Model SDKs and gateways, with a momentum score of 54 out of 100.

New GitHub stars per week for Honcho12 weeks from Aug 9, 2026: 129, 132, 145, 119, 104, 121, 107, 108, 114, 109, 103, 111 new stars, an average of 117 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 Honcho
Week ofNew stars
Aug 9, 2026129
Aug 16, 2026132
Aug 23, 2026145
Aug 30, 2026119
Sep 6, 2026104
Sep 13, 2026121
Sep 20, 2026107
Sep 27, 2026108
Oct 4, 2026114
Oct 11, 2026109
Oct 18, 2026103
Oct 25, 2026111

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.

Honcho alternatives

Other LLM SDKs and gateways on the Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum:

Model SDKs and gateways ranked by momentum, the week of Oct 25–31, 2026
RankToolStarsDownloads/wk
#1thinking-orbsthinking-orbs is a React library of dotted, animated thought-orb loading indicators for AI and agent user interfaces.3.9k1.4M
#2HeadroomHeadroom compresses tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks locally before they reach the LLM, as a library, proxy, or MCP server.78.5k125.8k
#3LiteLLMLiteLLM is an open source AI gateway and Python SDK that calls 100+ LLM providers through one OpenAI-format interface.62.5k23.1M
#5Anthropic SDKAnthropic SDK is the official Python library for calling the Claude API from Python applications.4k111M
#6Hugging Face HubHugging Face Hub is the official CLI and Python client for downloading, uploading and managing models, datasets and Spaces on the…4k68.3M
#7OpenAI SDKOpenAI SDK is the official Python library for the OpenAI API, with typed sync and async clients generated from OpenAI's OpenAPI…32k141.3M

All LLM SDKs and gateways, ranked

Honcho FAQ

How popular is Honcho?

Honcho has 7.9k GitHub stars as of Nov 1, 2026. It gained 111 new stars in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, against a 12-week average of 117 a week. That made it #4 among LLM SDKs and gateways on the Devtoolwatch Board.

What are the best alternatives to Honcho?

Other LLM SDKs and gateways on the Devtoolwatch Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum: thinking-orbs (#1), Headroom (#2), LiteLLM (#3), Anthropic SDK (#5), Hugging Face Hub (#6). The alternatives table above has their numbers.

Sources

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

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