Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/ansible/awx/vs/apache/airflow
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/ansible/awx/vs/apache/airflow.md
Description: awx and airflow share 13 technologies: psycopg, Redis, asgiref, AIOHTTP, azure-identity, cryptography, pyjwt, jinja2, jsonschema, boto3, kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, and psutil. Both are written in Python.

# awx vs airflow

awx and airflow share 13 technologies: psycopg, Redis, asgiref, AIOHTTP, azure-identity, cryptography, pyjwt, jinja2, jsonschema, boto3, kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, and psutil. Both are written in Python.

- [ansible/awx](https://seerepo.com/r/ansible/awx): AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
- [apache/airflow](https://seerepo.com/r/apache/airflow): Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: psycopg, Redis, asgiref, AIOHTTP, azure-identity, cryptography, pyjwt, jinja2, jsonschema, boto3, kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, psutil
- Only in awx: Django, hiredis, s3transfer, Postgres, channels-redis, gitdb, twisted, djangorestframework, adal, azure-keyvault-secrets, msal, msal-extensions, oauthlib, requests-oauthlib, markdown, markupsafe, nh3, jsonschema-specifications, openapi-spec-validator, referencing, azure-core, msrestazure, opentelemetry-api, opentelemetry-instrumentation, opentelemetry-instrumentation-logging, opentelemetry-semantic-conventions, python-daemon, ansible-runner, prometheus-client, botocore, opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc, opentelemetry-sdk
- Only in airflow: FastAPI, Flask, aiosqlite, azure-search-documents, azure-storage-blob, confluent-kafka, ibm-db, influxdb3-python, pgvector, presto-python-client, psycopg2-binary, pymongo, python-arango, snowflake-sqlalchemy, weaviate-client, pyarrow, Celery, oracledb, pyiceberg, DuckDB, pinecone, pymssql, clickhouse-connect, gcloud-aio-storage, gcsfs, Neo4j, pymysql, SQLite, Google, flask-appbuilder, uvicorn, werkzeug, a2wsgi, Apache, Vite, React, react-router-dom, Rich, flask-sqlalchemy, SQLAlchemy, alembic, sqlglot, flask-session, google-auth, pyspnego, flask-login, keyring, google-auth-httplib2, google-auth-oauthlib, azure-ai-projects, pydantic-ai-slim, cohere, nbconvert, aiosmtplib, beautifulsoup4, icalendar, sendgrid, flask-wtf, Pydantic, wtforms, msgspec, marshmallow, azure-mgmt-containerinstance, azure-mgmt-resource, Flower, structlog, kubernetes-asyncio, python-on-whales, docker, Alibaba Cloud, colorlog, org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api, org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core, org.slf4j:slf4j-api, next-themes, Chakra UI, React Hook Form, yaml

## Side by side

| | awx | airflow |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 159,435 lines written, 440 code files | 2,200,257 lines written, 4,596 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.4% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code and Cursor | 0.7% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Devin |
| Activity | Last push November 6, 2026, 25,518 commits, 15,621 stars | Last push November 5, 2026, 41,804 commits, 47,376 stars |
| Tests | 357 test files. 31.8% of its code files have a test that imports them | 4,949 test files. 53.3% 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, awx or airflow?

airflow, with 2,200,257 lines written; awx has 159,435.

The proof: [apache/airflow's code at commit 322c178](https://github.com/apache/airflow/tree/322c178e05b6621b9577e62e66964c1f4c0b590f)

### Which has more GitHub stars, awx or airflow?

airflow, with 47,376 stars; awx has 15,621.

The proof: [apache/airflow on GitHub](https://github.com/apache/airflow)

### Which has more tests, awx or airflow?

airflow, with 4,949 test files; awx has 357.

The proof: [apache/airflow's code at commit 322c178](https://github.com/apache/airflow/tree/322c178e05b6621b9577e62e66964c1f4c0b590f)

### Which was updated more recently, awx or airflow?

awx: its last push was on November 6, 2026, and airflow's on November 5, 2026.

The proof: [ansible/awx's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/ansible/awx/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, awx or airflow?

airflow: an AI signed 0.7% of its commits, with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Devin; in awx, 0.4%.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in apache/airflow](https://seerepo.com/r/apache/airflow/ai)

## Sources

- ansible/awx: Read on November 8, 2026, at commit fe6cd9d (https://github.com/ansible/awx/tree/fe6cd9d45a7e977e2b78c8e8e5e69cc24d7eeaaa)
- apache/airflow: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit 322c178 (https://github.com/apache/airflow/tree/322c178e05b6621b9577e62e66964c1f4c0b590f)

## 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.