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

zvec-grep at a glance

Category
RAG, data and memory

Is zvec-grep growing? Usage data

In the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, zvec-grep ranked #241 on the Devtoolwatch Board and #27 in RAG, data and memory, with a momentum score of 39 out of 100. Its main package had about 3.2k downloads that week, +31% against its own 4-week average.

New GitHub stars per week for zvec-grep12 weeks from Aug 9, 2026: 2, 1, 15, 2.8k, 556, 182, 185, 93, 147, 97, 63, 45 new stars, an average of 351 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 zvec-grep
Week ofNew stars
Aug 9, 20262
Aug 16, 20261
Aug 23, 202615
Aug 30, 20262.8k
Sep 6, 2026556
Sep 13, 2026182
Sep 20, 2026185
Sep 27, 202693
Oct 4, 2026147
Oct 11, 202697
Oct 18, 202663
Oct 25, 202645

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.

zvec-grep alternatives

Other RAG, data and memory tools on the Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum:

RAG, data and memory ranked by momentum, the week of Oct 25–31, 2026
RankToolStarsDownloads/wk
#1XERJXERJ is a local-first search engine and MCP server for AI agents, packaged as one Rust binary with an Elasticsearch-compatible API.17.9k–
#2MemvidMemvid is a single-file memory layer for AI agents that packages data, embeddings, search indexes, and metadata into one portable .mv2 file.17.3k–
#3LEANNLEANN is a Python vector database and RAG library that recomputes embeddings on demand to keep indexes small on personal devices.13.7k–
#4GraphifyGraphify is an AI coding assistant skill that turns a codebase, with its docs, PDFs, images and videos, into a queryable knowledge graph.140k480.7k
#5MarkItDownMarkItDown is a lightweight Python utility from Microsoft that converts PDFs, Office documents, images, audio and other files to…193.2k4.7M
#6FirecrawlFirecrawl is an API and open source project to search, scrape, crawl, and interact with web pages, returning LLM-ready markdown or JSON…197.4k2.9M

All RAG, data and memory tools, ranked

zvec-grep FAQ

How popular is zvec-grep?

zvec-grep has 4.2k GitHub stars as of Nov 1, 2026. It gained 45 new stars in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, against a 12-week average of 351 a week. Its main package had about 3.2k downloads that week, +31% against its own 4-week average. That made it #27 among RAG, data and memory tools on the Devtoolwatch Board.

What are the best alternatives to zvec-grep?

Other RAG, data and memory tools on the Devtoolwatch Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum: XERJ (#1), Memvid (#2), LEANN (#3), Graphify (#4), MarkItDown (#5). The alternatives table above has their numbers.

Sources

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

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