Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/microsoft/qlib/vs/run-llama/llama_index
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/microsoft/qlib/vs/run-llama/llama_index.md
Description: qlib and llama_index share 6 technologies: soupsieve, cryptography, torch, beautifulsoup4, bs4, and lxml. Both are written in Python.

# qlib vs llama_index

qlib and llama_index share 6 technologies: soupsieve, cryptography, torch, beautifulsoup4, bs4, and lxml. Both are written in Python.

- [microsoft/qlib](https://seerepo.com/r/microsoft/qlib): Qlib is an AI-oriented Quant investment platform that aims to use AI tech to empower Quant Research, from exploring ideas to implementing productions. Qlib supports diverse ML modeling paradigms, including supervised learning, market dynamics modeling, and RL, and is now equipped with https://github.com/microsoft/RD-Agent to automate R&D process.
- [run-llama/llama_index](https://seerepo.com/r/run-llama/llama_index): LlamaIndex is the document processing platform for AI

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: soupsieve, cryptography, torch, beautifulsoup4, bs4, lxml
- Only in qlib: openpyxl, loguru
- Only in llama_index: starlette, aiomysql, aiosqlite, async-lru, asyncpg, azure-search-documents, azure-storage-blob, ibm-db, pgvecto-rs, pgvector, psycopg, psycopg2-binary, pyzmq, Redis, weaviate-client, pyarrow, lancedb, oracledb, DuckDB, pymilvus, SQLite, tablestore, chromadb, falkordb, MySQL, pinecone, clickhouse-connect, gcsfs, pyiceberg, pymochow, pymysql, pyobvector, s3fs, tcvectordb, typesense, ElevenLabs, anyio, graphql-core, tornado, AIOHTTP, Ray, tinycss2, ipywidgets, matplotlib-inline, prompt-toolkit, matplotlib, Rich, SQLAlchemy, argon2-cffi, azure-identity, Google, google-auth-httplib2, google-auth-oauthlib, pyjwt, msal, einops, firecrawl-py, guardrails-ai, llama-index-core, mem0ai, OpenAI, opencv-python, PaddlePaddle, tavily-python, transformers, ibm-watsonx-ai, cohere, LangChain, tiktoken, MCP, sentence-transformers, dashscope, fastembed, flagembedding, nltk, sentencepiece, litellm, ModelScope, Ollama, openvino, scikit-learn, tritonclient, vLLM, datasets, exa-py, flashrank, hnswlib, langfuse, mlx, mlx-lm, nomic, optimum, paddleocr, peft, presidio-analyzer, tokenizers, bleach, markupsafe, mistune, nbformat, newspaper3k, xlrd, pillow, html2text, unstructured, defusedxml, jinja2, pymupdf, filetype, docx2txt, markdownify, docling, lxml-html-clean, markitdown, nbconvert, pdf2image, pdfplumber, pypdf, pypdf2, tinytag, youtube-transcript-api, jsonschema-specifications, marshmallow, referencing, rfc3339-validator, Pydantic, docling-core, annotated-types, jsonschema, pydantic-core, opentelemetry-api, opentelemetry-semantic-conventions, prometheus-client, psutil, python-json-logger, boto3, docker, Alibaba Cloud, OpenTelemetry

## Side by side

| | qlib | llama_index |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 78,929 lines written, 219 code files | 473,236 lines written, 2,055 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.2% of its commits signed by AI. With GitHub Copilot | 0.2% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot |
| Activity | Last push November 4, 2026, 1,852 commits, 50,029 stars | Last push November 5, 2026, 7,963 commits, 52,820 stars |
| Tests | 56 test files. 36.5% of its code files have a test that imports them | 1,607 test files. 46.5% 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, qlib or llama_index?

llama_index, with 473,236 lines written; qlib has 78,929.

The proof: [run-llama/llama_index's code at commit 444fdf0](https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/tree/444fdf0684707de62ebb447d658dba137dd9cb99)

### Which has more GitHub stars, qlib or llama_index?

llama_index, with 52,820 stars; qlib has 50,029.

The proof: [run-llama/llama_index on GitHub](https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index)

### Which has more tests, qlib or llama_index?

llama_index, with 1,607 test files; qlib has 56.

The proof: [run-llama/llama_index's code at commit 444fdf0](https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/tree/444fdf0684707de62ebb447d658dba137dd9cb99)

### Which was updated more recently, qlib or llama_index?

llama_index: its last push was on November 5, 2026, and qlib's on November 4, 2026.

The proof: [run-llama/llama_index's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, qlib or llama_index?

In both, an AI signed 0.2% of their commits.

## Sources

- microsoft/qlib: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit 5435523 (https://github.com/microsoft/qlib/tree/54355232463878d2eebb91fe0ee5fa7fa1f5976c)
- run-llama/llama_index: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit 444fdf0 (https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/tree/444fdf0684707de62ebb447d658dba137dd9cb99)

## 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.