Lightning-AI/litgpt

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

13.7k stars · 1.5k forks · Python

Healthy

Healthy: maintained by 6 people in the last 90 days, no known risks.

Why

No rule fired.

What would change this

A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.

Maintenance

Complete

Steady

Human commits, 30 days: 0
Human commits, 90 days: 8
Human commits, 365 days: 59
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 16%
Last commit: Sep 9, 2026 (1 month ago)
Last human commit: Sep 9, 2026 (1 month ago)
Authors, 90 days: 6
Last release: Jun 29, 2026 (3 months ago)
Median PR merge time: 5 days

Responsiveness: of 5 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 59 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 2
Authors for 80% of commits: 13
Contributors: 133

Top committers

bhimrazy: 47% of commits
adi776borate: 7% of commits
mseeger: 5% of commits
lianakoleva: 3% of commits
richboyneedcash: 3% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Oct 3, 2023 to Oct 6, 2023: about 94 more stars than usual, peak 40 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 9, 2023 to Oct 11, 2023: about 162 more stars than usual, peak 96 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Nov 30, 2023 to Dec 3, 2023: about 78 more stars than usual, peak 39 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Dec 8, 2023 to Dec 14, 2023: about 245 more stars than usual, peak 74 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 28, 2024 to Apr 2, 2024: about 178 more stars than usual, peak 77 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 8, 2024 to Apr 10, 2024: about 115 more stars than usual, peak 79 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Apr 13, 2024 to Apr 16, 2024: about 485 more stars than usual, peak 220 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jun 2, 2024 to Jun 17, 2024: about 849 more stars than usual, peak 175 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jul 9, 2024 to Jul 22, 2024: about 657 more stars than usual, peak 192 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 25, 2026 to Jul 27, 2026: about 78 more stars than usual, peak 37 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

The star history looks organic.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
A year ago: Not known

Packages

litgpt (PYPI): latest 0.5.13, published Jul 3, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

Sources: GitHub: Lightning-AI/litgpt, deps.dev: PyPI litgpt

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Oct 14, 2026: Healthy

Computed 8 hours ago · method 2026.10.2