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ray vs inference

ray and inference share 31 technologies: FastAPI, pyarrow, Hugging Face, AIOHTTP, Lightning, anyio, uvicorn, React, bitsandbytes, einops, onnxruntime, peft, safetensors, sentencepiece, tiktoken, timm, torch, transformers, torchvision, diffusers, imageio-ffmpeg, pillow, torchcodec, Pydantic, jsonschema, psutil, boto3, OpenTelemetry, opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc, opentelemetry-instrumentation-fastapi, and react-icons. 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

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xorbitsai

inference

Open-source inference platform for language, vision, embedding, reranking, image, audio, and video models. Deploy with multiple engines across heterogeneous hardware, from a laptop to a distributed cluster. Serve models through OpenAI-compatible APIs.

Python9.7kRead on November 14, 2026, at commit d2607afWhat is inference built with?

Only in inference

Side by side

SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
ray1,566,356 lines written2,810 code files
inference922,374 lines written2,727 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
inference0.3% of its commits signed by AIWith Gemini CLI, Claude Code, and Cursor
ActivityFrom GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
rayLast push November 13, 202632,468 commits44,282 stars
inferenceLast push November 14, 20262,791 commits9,655 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
inference676 test files19.9% of its code files have a test that imports them

Frequently asked questions

Which is bigger, ray or inference?
ray, with 1,566,356 lines written; inference has 922,374.

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

Which has more GitHub stars, ray or inference?
ray, with 44,282 stars; inference has 9,655.

The proof: ray-project/ray on GitHub

Which has more tests, ray or inference?
ray, with 2,208 test files; inference has 676.

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

Which was updated more recently, ray or inference?
inference: its last push was on November 14, 2026, and ray's on November 13, 2026.

The proof: xorbitsai/inference's commits on GitHub

Which has more commits signed by AI, ray or inference?
ray: an AI signed 3.7% of its commits, with Claude Code, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Codex; in inference, 0.3%.

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

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