Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/vs/hiyouga/LlamaFactory
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/vs/hiyouga/LlamaFactory.md
Description: axolotl and LlamaFactory share 14 technologies: Gradio, sentencepiece, torch, transformers, peft, accelerate, torchao, datasets, trl, bitsandbytes, liger-kernel, einops, optimum, and Pydantic. Both are written in Python.

# axolotl vs LlamaFactory

axolotl and LlamaFactory share 14 technologies: Gradio, sentencepiece, torch, transformers, peft, accelerate, torchao, datasets, trl, bitsandbytes, liger-kernel, einops, optimum, and Pydantic. Both are written in Python.

- [axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl](https://seerepo.com/r/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl): Go ahead and axolotl questions
- [hiyouga/LlamaFactory](https://seerepo.com/r/hiyouga/LlamaFactory): Unified Efficient Fine-Tuning of 100+ LLMs & VLMs (ACL 2024)

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Gradio, sentencepiece, torch, transformers, peft, accelerate, torchao, datasets, trl, bitsandbytes, liger-kernel, einops, optimum, Pydantic
- Only in axolotl: adlfs, gcsfs, s3fs, Hugging Face, PostHog, fla-core, flash-linear-attention, langdetect, lm-eval, triton, kernels, xformers, tokenizers, evaluate, mistral-common, trackio
- Only in LlamaFactory: FastAPI, uvicorn, matplotlib, aqlm, eetq, gptqmodel, hqq, ktransformers, tiktoken, torchvision, triton-ascend, vector-quantize-pytorch, vocos, badam, deepspeed, safetensors, torch-npu, vLLM, fsdp-turbo, ModelScope, openmind, torchaudio, adam-mini, apollo-torch, galore-torch, nltk, rouge-chinese, sglang, torchdata, transformer-engine, torchcodec, av, jsonschema-specifications, referencing, swanlab

## Side by side

| | axolotl | LlamaFactory |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 396,280 lines written, 830 code files | 62,694 lines written, 194 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.4% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, CodeRabbit, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor | 1.6% of its commits signed by AI. With Gemini CLI, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor |
| Activity | Last push November 10, 2026, 2,991 commits, 12,682 stars | Last push November 12, 2026, 2,777 commits, 76,016 stars |
| Tests | 815 test files. 64.6% of its code files have a test that imports them | 62 test files. 38.1% 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, axolotl or LlamaFactory?

axolotl, with 396,280 lines written; LlamaFactory has 62,694.

The proof: [axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl's code at commit cc14b95](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/cc14b95a0daf2ddfec0f568df68aeec5d6237df8)

### Which has more GitHub stars, axolotl or LlamaFactory?

LlamaFactory, with 76,016 stars; axolotl has 12,682.

The proof: [hiyouga/LlamaFactory on GitHub](https://github.com/hiyouga/LlamaFactory)

### Which has more tests, axolotl or LlamaFactory?

axolotl, with 815 test files; LlamaFactory has 62.

The proof: [axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl's code at commit cc14b95](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/cc14b95a0daf2ddfec0f568df68aeec5d6237df8)

### Which was updated more recently, axolotl or LlamaFactory?

LlamaFactory: its last push was on November 12, 2026, and axolotl's on November 10, 2026.

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

### Which has more commits signed by AI, axolotl or LlamaFactory?

LlamaFactory: an AI signed 1.6% of its commits, with Gemini CLI, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor; in axolotl, 0.4%.

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

## Sources

- axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl: Read on November 10, 2026, at commit cc14b95 (https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/cc14b95a0daf2ddfec0f568df68aeec5d6237df8)
- hiyouga/LlamaFactory: Read on November 12, 2026, at commit 6d1059c (https://github.com/hiyouga/LlamaFactory/tree/6d1059c727450a4f58e56ad204d01a71abad7781)

## 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.