ludwig-ai/ludwig
Low-code framework for building custom LLMs, neural networks, and other AI models
11.8k stars · 1.2k forks · Python
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 100% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteSlowing
- Human commits, 30 days
- 1
- Human commits, 90 days
- 10
- Human commits, 365 days
- 272
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 2%
- Last commit
- Sep 26, 2026 (18 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Sep 26, 2026 (18 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 1
- Last release
- Aug 16, 2026 (1 month ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 13 hours
Responsiveness: of 3 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- Only 3 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 272 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 148
Top committers
- w4nderlust: 100% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Feb 11, 2019 to Mar 17, 2019: about 3.6k more stars than usual, peak 895 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jul 14, 2019 to Jul 18, 2019: about 169 more stars than usual, peak 61 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 29, 2023 to Sep 7, 2023: about 355 more stars than usual, peak 82 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- 1 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).
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
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
Packages
- ludwig (PYPI): latest 0.17.9, published Aug 16, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.4 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
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[](https://reporadar.ai/ludwig-ai/ludwig)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Computed 7 hours ago · method 2026.10.2