ray vs salt

ray and salt share 14 technologies: pyzmq, AIOHTTP, tornado, cryptography, lxml, markdown-it-py, markupsafe, xmltodict, jinja2, jsonschema, psutil, OpenTelemetry, opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus, and docker. Both are written in Python.

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What they share and what sets them apart

ray-project

ray

Ray is an AI compute engine. Ray consists of a core distributed runtime and a set of AI Libraries for accelerating ML workloads.

Python44.3kRead on November 13, 2026, at commit de4c576What is ray built with?

Only in ray

In common

saltstack

salt

Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.

Python15.7kRead on November 8, 2026, at commit 944a95dWhat is salt built with?

Only in salt

Side by side

SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
ray1,566,356 lines written2,810 code files
salt1,064,745 lines written999 code files
Who writes itA commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
ray3.7% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Codex
salt0.1% of its commits signed by AIWith Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot
ActivityFrom GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
rayLast push November 13, 202632,468 commits44,282 stars
saltLast push November 7, 202689,855 commits15,747 stars
TestsThe files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.
ray2,208 test files9.4% of its code files have a test that imports them
salt2,106 test files70.1% of its code files have a test that imports them

Frequently asked questions

Which is bigger, ray or salt?
ray, with 1,566,356 lines written; salt has 1,064,745.

The proof: ray-project/ray's code at commit de4c576

Which has more GitHub stars, ray or salt?
ray, with 44,282 stars; salt has 15,747.

The proof: ray-project/ray on GitHub

Which has more tests, ray or salt?
ray, with 2,208 test files; salt has 2,106.

The proof: ray-project/ray's code at commit de4c576

Which was updated more recently, ray or salt?
ray: its last push was on November 13, 2026, and salt's on November 7, 2026.

The proof: ray-project/ray's commits on GitHub

Which has more commits signed by AI, ray or salt?
ray: an AI signed 3.7% of its commits, with Claude Code, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Codex; in salt, 0.1%.

The proof: the commits each tool signed in ray-project/ray

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