Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/ostris/ai-toolkit/vs/unslothai/unsloth
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/ostris/ai-toolkit/vs/unslothai/unsloth.md
Description: ai-toolkit and unsloth share 17 technologies: FastAPI, uvicorn, Hugging Face, React, matplotlib, sentencepiece, timm, transformers, safetensors, einops, accelerate, librosa, peft, av, Pydantic, Tailwind CSS, and Lucide. Both are written in Python.

# ai-toolkit vs unsloth

ai-toolkit and unsloth share 17 technologies: FastAPI, uvicorn, Hugging Face, React, matplotlib, sentencepiece, timm, transformers, safetensors, einops, accelerate, librosa, peft, av, Pydantic, Tailwind CSS, and Lucide. Both are written in Python.

- [ostris/ai-toolkit](https://seerepo.com/r/ostris/ai-toolkit): The ultimate training toolkit for finetuning diffusion models
- [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: FastAPI, uvicorn, Hugging Face, React, matplotlib, sentencepiece, timm, transformers, safetensors, einops, accelerate, librosa, peft, av, Pydantic, Tailwind CSS, Lucide
- Only in ai-toolkit: Next.js, SQLite, node-cache, Gradio, albucore, kornia, lycoris-lora, open-clip-torch, optimum-quanto, opencv-python, controlnet-aux, torchao, albumentations, lpips, bitsandbytes, prodigyopt, pytorch-fid, invisible-watermark, mutagen, torchcodec, classnames, Headless UI, react-dropzone, @monaco-editor/react, react-virtuoso, react-zoom-pan-pinch, react-select, uplot, react-icons, Prisma, yaml
- Only in unsloth: OpenAI, Tauri, Tokio, objc2-foundation, glib, objc2-app-kit, anyio, sqlite-vec, usearch, fastmcp, gio, TanStack, Vite, dexie, @tauri-apps/api, @assistant-ui/core, Rich, pyjwt, cryptography, torch, trl, datasets, jiwer, sentence-transformers, tokenizers, @assistant-ui/react, gguf, snac, tiktoken, pillow, jinja2, psutil, structlog, cairo-rs, gtk, tauri-plugin-dialog, webkit2gtk, webview2-com, gdk, objc2-web-kit, tauri-plugin-window-state, webkit2gtk-sys, tauri-plugin-notification, hmac, cut-cross-entropy, descript-audio-codec, descript-audiotools, einx, julius, numkong, openai-whisper, pystoi, scikit-learn, torch-c-dlpack-ext, torch-stoi, triton-kernels, diffusers, data-designer-engine, kernels, spandrel, markdown-it-py, markdown2, mdurl, pymupdf, gdk-pixbuf, lxml, pymupdf4llm, python-docx, loguru, log, simplelog, class-variance-authority, 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, assistant-stream, streamdown, mdast-util-from-markdown, mdast-util-gfm, mdast-util-math, micromark-extension-gfm, micromark-extension-math, unified, katex, remend, js-yaml, mammoth, marked, react-pdf, react-qr-code, decode-named-character-reference, dingbat-to-unicode, micromark-util-types, unpdf, @tauri-apps/plugin-process

## Side by side

| | ai-toolkit | unsloth |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 204,162 lines written, 663 code files | 3,998,249 lines written, 3,626 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.2% of its commits signed by AI. With Codex, 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 10, 2026, 1,578 commits, 12,609 stars | Last push November 9, 2026, 13,190 commits, 79,233 stars |
| Tests | 12 test files. 4.5% of its code files have a test that imports them | 5,927 test files. 61% 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, ai-toolkit or unsloth?

unsloth, with 3,998,249 lines written; ai-toolkit has 204,162.

The proof: [unslothai/unsloth's code at commit 56a96ad](https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/tree/56a96ad8845cbecddf9611ec14c17b2648c43933)

### Which has more GitHub stars, ai-toolkit or unsloth?

unsloth, with 79,233 stars; ai-toolkit has 12,609.

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

### Which has more tests, ai-toolkit or unsloth?

unsloth, with 5,927 test files; ai-toolkit has 12.

The proof: [unslothai/unsloth's code at commit 56a96ad](https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/tree/56a96ad8845cbecddf9611ec14c17b2648c43933)

### Which was updated more recently, ai-toolkit or unsloth?

ai-toolkit: its last push was on November 10, 2026, and unsloth's on November 9, 2026.

The proof: [ostris/ai-toolkit's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/ostris/ai-toolkit/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, ai-toolkit or unsloth?

unsloth: an AI signed 1% of its commits, with Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Codex, and GitHub Copilot; in ai-toolkit, 0.2%.

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

## Sources

- ostris/ai-toolkit: Read on November 10, 2026, at commit 4a7f285 (https://github.com/ostris/ai-toolkit/tree/4a7f28532ed6fe81d9f8c00718878bb3b8739015)
- unslothai/unsloth: Read on November 9, 2026, at commit 56a96ad (https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/tree/56a96ad8845cbecddf9611ec14c17b2648c43933)

## 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.