Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/onyx-dot-app/onyx/vs/saltstack/salt
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/onyx-dot-app/onyx/vs/saltstack/salt.md
Description: onyx and salt share 11 technologies: pyzmq, tornado, AIOHTTP, cryptography, jinja2, lxml, markdown-it-py, markupsafe, OpenTelemetry, psutil, and docker. Both are written in Python.

# onyx vs salt

onyx and salt share 11 technologies: pyzmq, tornado, AIOHTTP, cryptography, jinja2, lxml, markdown-it-py, markupsafe, OpenTelemetry, psutil, and docker. Both are written in Python.

- [onyx-dot-app/onyx](https://seerepo.com/r/onyx-dot-app/onyx): Open Source AI Platform - AI Chat with advanced features that works with every LLM
- [saltstack/salt](https://seerepo.com/r/saltstack/salt): Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: pyzmq, tornado, AIOHTTP, cryptography, jinja2, lxml, markdown-it-py, markupsafe, OpenTelemetry, psutil, docker
- Only in onyx: FastAPI, amqp, asyncpg, azure-storage-blob, azure-storage-file-datalake, boxsdk, fastavro, google-cloud-core, ldap3, OpenSearch, partd, psycopg2-binary, py-key-value-aio, s3transfer, zict, Celery, Redis, Postgres, pyairtable, Sentry, Google, Google Cloud Storage, Hugging Face, OpenAI, PostHog, Stripe, asgiref, fastmcp-slim, Flask, graphql-core, jupyter-core, werkzeug, Terraform, starlette, fastmcp, uvicorn, anyio, Tauri, Tokio, objc2-app-kit, objc2-foundation, React, react-native, Expo, expo-secure-store, react-native-mmkv, Next.js, Lit, cycler, fonttools, soupsieve, charm.land/lipgloss/v2, contourpy, matplotlib-inline, prompt-toolkit, Rich, urwid, charm.land/bubbletea/v2, charm.land/bubbles/v2, charm.land/wish/v2, SQLAlchemy, alembic, fastapi-users-db-sqlalchemy, argon2-cffi, argon2-cffi-bindings, authlib, azure-identity, google-auth-httplib2, itsdangerous, joserfc, keyring, libpass, msal-extensions, pwdlib, pyjwt, python3-saml, fastapi-users, google-auth, httpx-oauth, msal, oauthlib, requests-oauthlib, google-auth-oauthlib, accelerate, agent-client-protocol, azure-cognitiveservices-speech, einops, langchain-protocol, langsmith, NVIDIA, nvidia-cudnn-cu12, onnxruntime, openinference-instrumentation, openinference-semantic-conventions, scikit-learn, triton, litellm, MCP, chonkie, torch, sentence-transformers, tiktoken, braintrust, langfuse, cohere, exa-py, LangChain, safetensors, tokenizers, transformers, unstructured-client, voyageai, chevron, courlan, defusedxml, docutils, et-xmlfile, justext, lxml-html-clean, magika, mako, mammoth, markdownify, mdurl, msoffcrypto-tool, mwparserfromhell, olefile, pdfminer-six, pdfplumber, python-docx, python-pptx, rich-rst, ruamel-yaml, xlrd, xlsxwriter, beautifulsoup4, puremagic, pillow, github.com/yuin/goldmark, pypdf, markitdown, mistune, openpyxl, pypdfium2, reportlab, sendgrid, annotated-types, beartype, jsonschema-path, jsonschema-specifications, openapi-pydantic, referencing, validate, Pydantic, github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-framework-validators, email-validator, azure-core, coloredlogs, execnet, opentelemetry-exporter-http-transport, opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-common, opentelemetry-semantic-conventions, python-json-logger, supervisor, prometheus-client, boto3, botocore, prometheus-fastapi-instrumentator, github.com/sirupsen/logrus, kubernetes, aiobotocore, github.com/charmbracelet/log, Prometheus, gtk, window-vibrancy, tauri-plugin-window-state, Tailwind CSS, nativewind, class-variance-authority, tailwind-merge, react-native-svg, react-native-safe-area-context, rn-primitives, expo-image, React Hook Form, react-native-reanimated, react-native-gesture-handler, react-native-keyboard-controller, expo-splash-screen, expo-status-bar, react-native-enriched-markdown, Shopify, expo-document-picker, expo-image-picker, react-native-streamdown, next-themes, Formik, Radix UI, motion, react-dropzone, dnd-kit, lowlight, recharts, react-icons, Lucide, react-markdown, remark-gfm, highlight.js, rehype-katex, remark-math, katex, rehype-highlight, unified, docx-preview, dompurify, pdfjs-dist, react-pdf, rehype-sanitize, rehype-stringify, remark, remark-parse, xlsx, yup, TanStack, @floating-ui/react-dom, react-day-picker, marked
- Only in salt: pymssql, bcrypt, xmltodict, jsonschema, apache-libcloud, opentelemetry-api, opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus, opentelemetry-sdk

## Side by side

| | onyx | salt |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 1,761,418 lines written, 4,062 code files | 1,064,745 lines written, 999 code files |
| Who writes it | 12.3% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Devin, Cursor, CodeRabbit, GitHub Copilot, and Sweep | 0.1% of its commits signed by AI. With Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot |
| Activity | Last push November 14, 2026, 11,587 commits, 33,395 stars | Last push November 7, 2026, 89,855 commits, 15,747 stars |
| Tests | 3,403 test files. 47.3% of its code files have a test that imports them | 2,106 test files. 70.1% 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, onyx or salt?

onyx, with 1,761,418 lines written; salt has 1,064,745.

The proof: [onyx-dot-app/onyx's code at commit 82c169c](https://github.com/onyx-dot-app/onyx/tree/82c169c22d416d463df921b5037b8c288743ea93)

### Which has more GitHub stars, onyx or salt?

onyx, with 33,395 stars; salt has 15,747.

The proof: [onyx-dot-app/onyx on GitHub](https://github.com/onyx-dot-app/onyx)

### Which has more tests, onyx or salt?

onyx, with 3,403 test files; salt has 2,106.

The proof: [onyx-dot-app/onyx's code at commit 82c169c](https://github.com/onyx-dot-app/onyx/tree/82c169c22d416d463df921b5037b8c288743ea93)

### Which was updated more recently, onyx or salt?

onyx: its last push was on November 14, 2026, and salt's on November 7, 2026.

The proof: [onyx-dot-app/onyx's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/onyx-dot-app/onyx/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, onyx or salt?

onyx: an AI signed 12.3% of its commits, with Claude Code, Devin, Cursor, CodeRabbit, GitHub Copilot, and Sweep; in salt, 0.1%.

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

## Sources

- onyx-dot-app/onyx: Read on November 14, 2026, at commit 82c169c (https://github.com/onyx-dot-app/onyx/tree/82c169c22d416d463df921b5037b8c288743ea93)
- saltstack/salt: Read on November 8, 2026, at commit 944a95d (https://github.com/saltstack/salt/tree/944a95d59ca465f913294f7d94af7de1cbb3ca98)

## 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.