Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/huggingface/peft/vs/unslothai/unsloth
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/huggingface/peft/vs/unslothai/unsloth.md
Description: peft and unsloth share 10 technologies: Hugging Face, peft, torch, transformers, accelerate, safetensors, datasets, diffusers, pillow, and psutil. Both are written in Python.

# peft vs unsloth

peft and unsloth share 10 technologies: Hugging Face, peft, torch, transformers, accelerate, safetensors, datasets, diffusers, pillow, and psutil. Both are written in Python.

- [huggingface/peft](https://seerepo.com/r/huggingface/peft): 🤗 PEFT: State-of-the-art Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning.
- [unslothai/unsloth](https://seerepo.com/r/unslothai/unsloth): Local UI to run and train LLMs and diffusion models. Supports GGUF, MLX, Qwen3.8, DeepSeek-V4.1, MiniMax-H3, Gemma 4, FLUX and more.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Hugging Face, peft, torch, transformers, accelerate, safetensors, datasets, diffusers, pillow, psutil
- Only in peft: Gradio, bitsandbytes, torchvision
- Only in unsloth: React, FastAPI, OpenAI, uvicorn, Tauri, Tokio, objc2-foundation, objc2-app-kit, anyio, fastmcp, TanStack, Vite, dexie, @tauri-apps/api, @assistant-ui/core, Rich, matplotlib, pyjwt, cryptography, sentence-transformers, tokenizers, @assistant-ui/react, librosa, sentencepiece, tiktoken, av, jinja2, Pydantic, structlog, gtk, tauri-plugin-dialog, webkit2gtk, webview2-com, objc2-web-kit, tauri-plugin-window-state, tauri-plugin-notification, hmac, einops, openai-whisper, scikit-learn, timm, spandrel, markdown-it-py, mdurl, pymupdf, lxml, pymupdf4llm, python-docx, loguru, log, simplelog, class-variance-authority, Tailwind CSS, PostCSS, @tailwindcss/vite, postcss-selector-parser, tailwind-merge, Radix UI, xyflow, motion, sonner, @streamdown/code, recharts, cmdk, canvas-confetti, react-day-picker, react-resizable-panels, @dagrejs/dagre, @tauri-apps/plugin-notification, Base UI, hugeicons, Lucide, streamdown, mdast-util-from-markdown, mdast-util-gfm, mdast-util-math, micromark-extension-gfm, micromark-extension-math, unified, katex, remend, js-yaml, mammoth, react-pdf, react-qr-code, marked, micromark-util-types, unpdf, @tauri-apps/plugin-process

## Side by side

| | peft | unsloth |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 166,024 lines written, 272 code files | 3,889,108 lines written, 3,532 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.1% of its commits signed by AI. With Cursor and Claude Code | 1% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Codex, and GitHub Copilot |
| Activity | Last push November 4, 2026, 1,934 commits, 21,873 stars | Last push November 4, 2026, 12,770 commits, 79,050 stars |
| Tests | 75 test files. 0.7% of its code files have a test that imports them | 5,718 test files. 60.3% 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, peft or unsloth?

unsloth, with 3,889,108 lines written; peft has 166,024.

The proof: [unslothai/unsloth's code at commit a1e340b](https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/tree/a1e340be0f78b5fa6d2538f6ad65bbc1837f83fd)

### Which has more GitHub stars, peft or unsloth?

unsloth, with 79,050 stars; peft has 21,873.

The proof: [unslothai/unsloth on GitHub](https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth)

### Which has more tests, peft or unsloth?

unsloth, with 5,718 test files; peft has 75.

The proof: [unslothai/unsloth's code at commit a1e340b](https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/tree/a1e340be0f78b5fa6d2538f6ad65bbc1837f83fd)

### Which was updated more recently, peft or unsloth?

Both got their last push on November 4, 2026.

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

### Which has more commits signed by AI, peft or unsloth?

unsloth: an AI signed 1% of its commits, with Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Codex, and GitHub Copilot; in peft, 0.1%.

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

## Sources

- huggingface/peft: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit 574c7ca (https://github.com/huggingface/peft/tree/574c7cab277827d7383ae53a0e93e22cf816f476)
- unslothai/unsloth: Read on November 4, 2026, at commit a1e340b (https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/tree/a1e340be0f78b5fa6d2538f6ad65bbc1837f83fd)

## 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.