Lightning-AI/litgpt

Inference Engines

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

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7.8

GitHub Metrics

Stars

13.4k

Forks

1.5k

Open Issues

265

Watchers

118

Contributors

133

Weekly Commits

Language

Python

License

Apache-2.0

Last Commit

Jun 26, 2026

Created

May 4, 2023

Latest Release

v0.5.12

Release Date

Dec 18, 2025

Synced: Jun 29, 2026

Quality Scores

Documentation Qualityw: 20%

7.9

Has docs site (https://lightning.ai). Description: 81 chars. Stars signal: 13,447. Contributors: 133. Score: 7.9/10

Community Healthw: 20%

8.1

Stars: 13,447. Contributors: 133. Watchers: 118. Forks: 1,464. Issue ratio: 2.0%. Score: 8.1/10

Maintenance Velocityw: 15%

6.6

Last commit: 3d ago. Weekly commits: 0. Latest release: v0.5.12. Maturity bonus: 3.2y old. Score: 6.6/10

API Design & DXw: 20%

7.9

Stars/issues ratio: 51. Dynamic language: Python. Has documentation site. Permissive license: Apache-2.0. Popularity signal: 13,447 stars. Score: 7.9/10

Production Readinessw: 15%

8.0

Battle-tested: 13,447 stars. Peer review: 133 contributors. Versioned: v0.5.12. Licensed: Apache-2.0. Age: 3.2 years. Maintenance: last commit 3d ago. Score: 8/10

Ecosystem Integrationw: 10%

8.4

Fork interest: 1,464. Major ecosystem: Python. Integration-friendly: Apache-2.0. Adoption: 13,447 stars. Has web presence. Score: 8.4/10