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Description: surya and hello-agents share 7 technologies: Hugging Face, OpenAI, torch, transformers, pillow, beautifulsoup4, and Pydantic. Both are written in Python.

# surya vs hello-agents

surya and hello-agents share 7 technologies: Hugging Face, OpenAI, torch, transformers, pillow, beautifulsoup4, and Pydantic. Both are written in Python.

- [datalab-to/surya](https://seerepo.com/r/datalab-to/surya): OCR, layout analysis, reading order, table recognition in 90+ languages
- [datawhalechina/hello-agents](https://seerepo.com/r/datawhalechina/hello-agents): 📚 《从零开始构建智能体》——从零开始的智能体原理与实践教程

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Hugging Face, OpenAI, torch, transformers, pillow, beautifulsoup4, Pydantic
- Only in surya: torchvision, filetype, pypdfium2
- Only in hello-agents: FastAPI, uvicorn, aiosqlite, asyncpg, psycopg2-binary, Postgres, chromadb, Redis, SQLite, oracledb, pymilvus, Qdrant, Flask, fastmcp, starlette, anyio, AIOHTTP, Streamlit, Vite, Vue, vue-router, React, react-router-dom, cycler, fonttools, contourpy, Plotly, Gradio, matplotlib, Rich, alembic, SQLAlchemy, bcrypt, accelerate, MCP, onnxruntime, peft, safetensors, tavily-python, tokenizers, scikit-learn, sentence-transformers, tiktoken, datasets, langchain-openai, LangGraph, paddlenlp, rank-bm25, spaCy, lxml, markdown, openpyxl, pdfminer.six, pypdf, python-docx, reportlab, xlrd, pdfplumber, feedparser, pymupdf, jinja2, annotated-types, email-validator, pydantic-core, jsonschema, OpenTelemetry, opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc, loguru, D3, katex, Tailwind CSS, markdown-it, vue-flow, Chart.js, vue-chartjs, highlight.js, dompurify, marked, react-markdown, Element, echarts, Leaflet, Mermaid, html2canvas, jspdf

## Side by side

| | surya | hello-agents |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 16,145 lines written, 93 code files | 226,661 lines written, 1,212 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.3% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code | 2.4% of its commits signed by AI. With Codex, Cursor, and Claude Code |
| Activity | Last push October 29, 2026, 799 commits, 21,579 stars | Last push October 13, 2026, 660 commits, 86,039 stars |
| Tests | 16 test files. 22.6% of its code files have a test that imports them | 97 test files. 6.9% 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, surya or hello-agents?

hello-agents, with 226,661 lines written; surya has 16,145.

The proof: [datawhalechina/hello-agents's code at commit 36f583c](https://github.com/datawhalechina/hello-agents/tree/36f583c233ea5cee4537ef93455702b55053af18)

### Which has more GitHub stars, surya or hello-agents?

hello-agents, with 86,039 stars; surya has 21,579.

The proof: [datawhalechina/hello-agents on GitHub](https://github.com/datawhalechina/hello-agents)

### Which has more tests, surya or hello-agents?

hello-agents, with 97 test files; surya has 16.

The proof: [datawhalechina/hello-agents's code at commit 36f583c](https://github.com/datawhalechina/hello-agents/tree/36f583c233ea5cee4537ef93455702b55053af18)

### Which was updated more recently, surya or hello-agents?

surya: its last push was on October 29, 2026, and hello-agents's on October 13, 2026.

The proof: [datalab-to/surya's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/datalab-to/surya/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, surya or hello-agents?

hello-agents: an AI signed 2.4% of its commits, with Codex, Cursor, and Claude Code; in surya, 0.3%.

## Sources

- datalab-to/surya: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit 9d5aadf (https://github.com/datalab-to/surya/tree/9d5aadfebb07939755c24e8a80d0e61b3be80895)
- datawhalechina/hello-agents: Read on November 4, 2026, at commit 36f583c (https://github.com/datawhalechina/hello-agents/tree/36f583c233ea5cee4537ef93455702b55053af18)

## 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.