Lightning-AI/litgpt

Inference Engines

20+ high-performance LLMs with recipes to pretrain, finetune and deploy at scale.

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7.9

GitHub Metrics

Stars

13.6k

Forks

1.5k

Open Issues

287

Watchers

119

Contributors

134

Weekly Commits

Language

Python

License

Apache-2.0

Last Commit

Aug 31, 2026

Created

May 4, 2023

Latest Release

v0.5.13

Release Date

Jun 29, 2026

Synced: Sep 2, 2026

Quality Scores

Documentation Qualityw: 20%

7.9

Has docs site (https://lightning.ai). Description: 81 chars. Stars signal: 13,641. Contributors: 134. Score: 7.9/10

Community Healthw: 20%

8.1

Stars: 13,641. Contributors: 134. Watchers: 119. Forks: 1,490. Issue ratio: 2.1%. Score: 8.1/10

Maintenance Velocityw: 15%

7.5

Last commit: 2d ago. Weekly commits: 0. Latest release: v0.5.13. Maturity bonus: 3.3y old. Score: 7.5/10

API Design & DXw: 20%

7.6

Stars/issues ratio: 48. Dynamic language: Python. Has documentation site. Permissive license: Apache-2.0. Popularity signal: 13,641 stars. Score: 7.6/10

Production Readinessw: 15%

8.0

Battle-tested: 13,641 stars. Peer review: 134 contributors. Versioned: v0.5.13. Licensed: Apache-2.0. Age: 3.3 years. Maintenance: last commit 2d ago. Score: 8/10

Ecosystem Integrationw: 10%

8.4

Fork interest: 1,490. Major ecosystem: Python. Integration-friendly: Apache-2.0. Adoption: 13,641 stars. Has web presence. Score: 8.4/10