Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/a16z-infra/ai-town/vs/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/a16z-infra/ai-town/vs/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm.md
Description: ai-town and anything-llm share 4 technologies: Vite, React, Tailwind CSS, and react-toastify. ai-town is written in TypeScript and anything-llm in JavaScript.

# ai-town vs anything-llm

ai-town and anything-llm share 4 technologies: Vite, React, Tailwind CSS, and react-toastify. ai-town is written in TypeScript and anything-llm in JavaScript.

- [a16z-infra/ai-town](https://seerepo.com/r/a16z-infra/ai-town): A MIT-licensed, deployable starter kit for building and customizing your own version of AI town - a virtual town where AI characters live, chat and socialize.
- [Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm](https://seerepo.com/r/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm): Stop renting your intelligence. Own it with AnythingLLM. Everything you need for a powerful local-first agent experience 

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Vite, React, Tailwind CSS, react-toastify
- Only in ai-town: Convex, Replicate, pixi.js, pixi-viewport, uplot, react-modal, usehooks-ts, Clerk
- Only in anything-llm: Express, react-router-dom, @zilliz/milvus2-sdk-node, chromadb, @lancedb/lancedb, @pinecone-database/pinecone, mssql, SQLite, weaviate-client, OpenAI, Anthropic, ElevenLabs, MCP, PostHog, LangChain, @xenova/transformers, js-tiktoken, tesseract.js, html-to-text, pdf-parse, node-html-parser, mbox-parser, node-xlsx, officeparser, sharp, turndown, wavefile, winston, react-tooltip, react-loading-skeleton, react-tag-input-component, react-beautiful-dnd, react-dropzone, react-highlight-words, react-speech-recognition, recharts, @tremor/react, react-error-boundary, @phosphor-icons/react, @lobehub/icons, @mintplex-labs/piper-tts-web, highlight.js, dompurify, he, markdown-it, qrcode.react, katex, recharts-to-png, chartjs-node-canvas, Inquirer, swagger-ui-express, Prisma, bcryptjs, uuid-apikey, jsonwebtoken, ollama, @mintplex-labs/mdpdf, Cheerio, pdf-lib, docx, exceljs, marked, pptxgenjs, cron-validate, joi-password-complexity, @ladjs/graceful

## Side by side

| | ai-town | anything-llm |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 16,088 lines written, 109 code files | 300,715 lines written, 1,166 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.1% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code | 0.4% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Cursor, Devin, and Aider |
| Activity | Last push November 5, 2026, 986 commits, 10,794 stars | Last push November 12, 2026, 2,540 commits, 68,219 stars |
| Tests | 7 test files. 6.4% of its code files have a test that imports them | 100 test files. 10.9% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, ai-town or anything-llm?

anything-llm, with 300,715 lines written; ai-town has 16,088.

The proof: [Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm's code at commit c4e4e67](https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm/tree/c4e4e677ec5611fb488f8d46782813ae994df59e)

### Which has more GitHub stars, ai-town or anything-llm?

anything-llm, with 68,219 stars; ai-town has 10,794.

The proof: [Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm on GitHub](https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm)

### Which has more tests, ai-town or anything-llm?

anything-llm, with 100 test files; ai-town has 7.

The proof: [Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm's code at commit c4e4e67](https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm/tree/c4e4e677ec5611fb488f8d46782813ae994df59e)

### Which was updated more recently, ai-town or anything-llm?

anything-llm: its last push was on November 12, 2026, and ai-town's on November 5, 2026.

The proof: [Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, ai-town or anything-llm?

anything-llm: an AI signed 0.4% of its commits, with Claude Code, Cursor, Devin, and Aider; in ai-town, 0.1%.

## Sources

- a16z-infra/ai-town: Read on November 13, 2026, at commit 1b2f7d8 (https://github.com/a16z-infra/ai-town/tree/1b2f7d8b824c7bc679017a091d9d45ba3dc3029e)
- Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm: Read on November 12, 2026, at commit c4e4e67 (https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm/tree/c4e4e677ec5611fb488f8d46782813ae994df59e)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.