airflow vs agent-lightning
airflow and agent-lightning share 5 technologies: FastAPI, uvicorn, jinja2, Pydantic, and structlog. Both are written in Python.
What they share and what sets them apart
apache
airflow
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Python47.4kRead on November 5, 2026, at commit 322c178What is airflow built with?Only in airflow
- Flask
- aiosqlite
- azure-search-documents
- azure-storage-blob
confluent-kafka
- ibm-db
- influxdb3-python
pgvector
- presto-python-client
psycopg
psycopg2-binary
- pymongo
python-arango
- Redis
snowflake-sqlalchemy
weaviate-client
pyarrow
- Celery
oracledb
pyiceberg
- DuckDB
pinecone
- pymssql
clickhouse-connect
- gcloud-aio-storage
- gcsfs
- Neo4j
- pymysql
- SQLite
flask-appbuilder
- asgiref
- AIOHTTP
werkzeug
- a2wsgi
- Apache
- Vite
- React
react-router-dom
- Rich
flask-sqlalchemy
- SQLAlchemy
- alembic
sqlglot
- azure-identity
flask-session
- google-auth
- pyspnego
- pyjwt
- cryptography
- flask-login
- keyring
google-auth-httplib2
google-auth-oauthlib
- azure-ai-projects
- pydantic-ai-slim
cohere
- nbconvert
- aiosmtplib
- beautifulsoup4
- icalendar
sendgrid
flask-wtf
wtforms
- jsonschema
msgspec
marshmallow
- azure-mgmt-containerinstance
- azure-mgmt-resource
- Flower
- OpenTelemetry
kubernetes
- boto3
psutil
- 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
In common
microsoft
agent-lightning
The absolute trainer to light up AI agents.
Python18.9kRead on November 6, 2026, at commit bc3a9e8What is agent-lightning built with?Side by side
airflowagent-lightning
SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
airflow2,200,257 lines written4,596 code files
agent-lightning16,024 lines written35 code files
Who writes itA commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
airflow0.7% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Devin
agent-lightning4.5% of its commits signed by AIWith GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and Cursor
ActivityFrom GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
airflowLast push November 5, 202641,804 commits47,376 stars
agent-lightningLast push November 5, 2026672 commits18,906 stars
TestsThe files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.
airflow4,949 test files53.3% of its code files have a test that imports them
agent-lightning24 test files62.9% of its code files have a test that imports them
Frequently asked questions
Which is bigger, airflow or agent-lightning?
airflow, with 2,200,257 lines written; agent-lightning has 16,024.
The proof: apache/airflow's code at commit 322c178
Which has more GitHub stars, airflow or agent-lightning?
airflow, with 47,376 stars; agent-lightning has 18,906.
The proof: apache/airflow on GitHub
Which has more tests, airflow or agent-lightning?
airflow, with 4,949 test files; agent-lightning has 24.
The proof: apache/airflow's code at commit 322c178
Which was updated more recently, airflow or agent-lightning?
Both got their last push on November 5, 2026.
The proof: apache/airflow's commits on GitHub
Which has more commits signed by AI, airflow or agent-lightning?
agent-lightning: an AI signed 4.5% of its commits, with GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and Cursor; in airflow, 0.7%.
The proof: the commits each tool signed in microsoft/agent-lightning
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