Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/ccfos/nightingale/vs/QuantumNous/new-api
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/ccfos/nightingale/vs/QuantumNous/new-api.md
Description: nightingale and new-api share 10 technologies: Gin, Redis, MySQL, Postgres, ClickHouse, github.com/glebarez/sqlite, gorm.io/gorm, gorm.io/driver/clickhouse, golang.org/x/oauth2, and Prometheus. Both are written in Go.

# nightingale vs new-api

nightingale and new-api share 10 technologies: Gin, Redis, MySQL, Postgres, ClickHouse, github.com/glebarez/sqlite, gorm.io/gorm, gorm.io/driver/clickhouse, golang.org/x/oauth2, and Prometheus. Both are written in Go.

- [ccfos/nightingale](https://seerepo.com/r/ccfos/nightingale): Open-source, self-hosted alerting for metrics, logs, and databases. Includes a built-in AI agent and MCP server.
- [QuantumNous/new-api](https://seerepo.com/r/QuantumNous/new-api): Open-source AI gateway. Self-hosted LLM gateway with OpenAI-, Claude- and Gemini-compatible APIs, model routing, access control, usage tracking and cost accounting.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Gin, Redis, MySQL, Postgres, ClickHouse, github.com/glebarez/sqlite, gorm.io/gorm, gorm.io/driver/clickhouse, golang.org/x/oauth2, Prometheus
- Only in nightingale: go-redis, pq, sarama, github.com/patrickmn/go-cache, OpenSearch, SQLite, TiDB, Kafka, MCP, github.com/golang-jwt/jwt, github.com/coreos/go-oidc, github.com/go-ldap/ldap/v3, github.com/mojocn/base64Captcha, Model Context Protocol, gopkg.in/gomail.v2, github.com/google/jsonschema-go, github.com/prometheus/prometheus, github.com/prometheus/client_golang, github.com/gin-contrib/pprof, github.com/prometheus/client_model
- Only in new-api: pgx, github.com/samber/hot, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/aws/protocol/eventstream, github.com/glebarez/go-sqlite, Stripe, github.com/gin-contrib/static, Electron, React, TanStack, github.com/go-webauthn/webauthn, github.com/casbin/casbin/v2, github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v5, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials, github.com/Azure/go-ntlmssp, github.com/coreos/go-oidc/v3, github.com/pquerna/otp, openai-go, relaykit, tokenkit, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/bedrockruntime, github.com/tiktoken-go/tokenizer, golang.org/x/image, github.com/abema/go-mp4, github.com/go-audio/aiff, github.com/go-audio/wav, github.com/jfreymuth/oggvorbis, github.com/mewkiz/flac, github.com/tcolgate/mp3, github.com/yapingcat/gomedia, github.com/go-playground/validator/v10, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2, github.com/grafana/pyroscope-go, Tailwind CSS, class-variance-authority, tailwind-merge, sonner, React Hook Form, @tanstack/react-table, Base UI, motion, visactor, xyflow, CodeMirror, react-day-picker, @lezer/highlight, yace, auto-skeleton-react, cmdk, embla-carousel-react, input-otp, react-resizable-panels, react-top-loading-bar, recharts, use-stick-to-bottom, vaul, Lucide, hugeicons, @lobehub/icons, react-icons, ai, tokenlens, stream-markdown-parser, dompurify, marked, shiki, katex, qrcode.react, yaml, Zod, @hookform/resolvers

## Side by side

| | nightingale | new-api |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 204,238 lines written, 596 code files | 574,385 lines written, 1,977 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.1% of its commits signed by AI. With Cursor and GitHub Copilot | 0.7% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, CodeRabbit, Codex, Jules, and Cursor |
| Activity | Last push November 6, 2026, 3,263 commits, 13,470 stars | Last push November 9, 2026, 5,433 commits, 51,683 stars |
| Tests | 246 test files. 61.4% of its code files have a test that imports them | 515 test files. 39.5% 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, nightingale or new-api?

new-api, with 574,385 lines written; nightingale has 204,238.

The proof: [QuantumNous/new-api's code at commit bd6bb53](https://github.com/QuantumNous/new-api/tree/bd6bb53019fb7e21804b31ab7365c9b2097f4b6c)

### Which has more GitHub stars, nightingale or new-api?

new-api, with 51,683 stars; nightingale has 13,470.

The proof: [QuantumNous/new-api on GitHub](https://github.com/QuantumNous/new-api)

### Which has more tests, nightingale or new-api?

new-api, with 515 test files; nightingale has 246.

The proof: [QuantumNous/new-api's code at commit bd6bb53](https://github.com/QuantumNous/new-api/tree/bd6bb53019fb7e21804b31ab7365c9b2097f4b6c)

### Which was updated more recently, nightingale or new-api?

new-api: its last push was on November 9, 2026, and nightingale's on November 6, 2026.

The proof: [QuantumNous/new-api's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/QuantumNous/new-api/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, nightingale or new-api?

new-api: an AI signed 0.7% of its commits, with Claude Code, CodeRabbit, Codex, Jules, and Cursor; in nightingale, 0.1%.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in QuantumNous/new-api](https://seerepo.com/r/QuantumNous/new-api/ai)

## Sources

- ccfos/nightingale: Read on November 10, 2026, at commit 3abcdb2 (https://github.com/ccfos/nightingale/tree/3abcdb2312453be2dbb2174e42320620c9819dcf)
- QuantumNous/new-api: Read on November 10, 2026, at commit bd6bb53 (https://github.com/QuantumNous/new-api/tree/bd6bb53019fb7e21804b31ab7365c9b2097f4b6c)

## 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.