Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/exo-explore/exo/vs/hpcaitech/ColossalAI
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/exo-explore/exo/vs/hpcaitech/ColossalAI.md
Description: exo and ColossalAI share 10 technologies: FastAPI, Hugging Face, anyio, datasets, math-verify, tiktoken, transformers, jinja2, Pydantic, and psutil. Both are written in Python.

# exo vs ColossalAI

exo and ColossalAI share 10 technologies: FastAPI, Hugging Face, anyio, datasets, math-verify, tiktoken, transformers, jinja2, Pydantic, and psutil. Both are written in Python.

- [exo-explore/exo](https://seerepo.com/r/exo-explore/exo): Run frontier AI locally.
- [hpcaitech/ColossalAI](https://seerepo.com/r/hpcaitech/ColossalAI): Making large AI models cheaper, faster and more accessible

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: FastAPI, Hugging Face, anyio, datasets, math-verify, tiktoken, transformers, jinja2, Pydantic, psutil
- Only in exo: Tokio, AIOHTTP, hypercorn, Tailwind CSS, lm-eval, openai-harmony, msgspec, python-daemon, loguru, log, env_logger, pyo3-log
- Only in ColossalAI: uvicorn, chromadb, Ray, Gradio, seaborn, matplotlib, Rich, SQLAlchemy, ModelScope, OpenAI, scikit-learn, sentence-transformers, torch, LangChain, triton, peft, diffusers, flash-attn, timm, safetensors, bitsandbytes, vLLM, einops, accelerate, galore-torch, sentencepiece, tokenizers, torchaudio, torchvision, markdown-it-py, markupsafe, mdurl, pypdf, unstructured, pillow, jsonlines, annotated-types, pydantic-core

## Side by side

| | exo | ColossalAI |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 161,527 lines written, 386 code files | 317,403 lines written, 974 code files |
| Who writes it | 12% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Cursor, and Jules | 0.3% of its commits signed by AI. With Codex and Claude Code |
| Activity | Last push November 5, 2026, 2,248 commits, 48,204 stars | Last push November 6, 2026, 3,887 commits, 41,430 stars |
| Tests | 290 test files. 51.6% of its code files have a test that imports them | 505 test files. 1.1% 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, exo or ColossalAI?

ColossalAI, with 317,403 lines written; exo has 161,527.

The proof: [hpcaitech/ColossalAI's code at commit da8f5c2](https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI/tree/da8f5c2dd56f97d3d23d3d222b114e1a3d4710f5)

### Which has more GitHub stars, exo or ColossalAI?

exo, with 48,204 stars; ColossalAI has 41,430.

The proof: [exo-explore/exo on GitHub](https://github.com/exo-explore/exo)

### Which has more tests, exo or ColossalAI?

ColossalAI, with 505 test files; exo has 290.

The proof: [hpcaitech/ColossalAI's code at commit da8f5c2](https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI/tree/da8f5c2dd56f97d3d23d3d222b114e1a3d4710f5)

### Which was updated more recently, exo or ColossalAI?

ColossalAI: its last push was on November 6, 2026, and exo's on November 5, 2026.

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

### Which has more commits signed by AI, exo or ColossalAI?

exo: an AI signed 12% of its commits, with Claude Code, Cursor, and Jules; in ColossalAI, 0.3%.

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

## Sources

- exo-explore/exo: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit 1d72c2a (https://github.com/exo-explore/exo/tree/1d72c2a7154929d87f20ba11829601c6c7a937ef)
- hpcaitech/ColossalAI: Read on November 6, 2026, at commit da8f5c2 (https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI/tree/da8f5c2dd56f97d3d23d3d222b114e1a3d4710f5)

## 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.