Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/run-llama/llama_index/vs/Unstructured-IO/unstructured
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/run-llama/llama_index/vs/Unstructured-IO/unstructured.md
Description: llama_index and unstructured share 4 technologies: beautifulsoup4, lxml, filetype, and psutil. llama_index is written in Python and unstructured in HTML.

# llama_index vs unstructured

llama_index and unstructured share 4 technologies: beautifulsoup4, lxml, filetype, and psutil. llama_index is written in Python and unstructured in HTML.

- [run-llama/llama_index](https://seerepo.com/r/run-llama/llama_index): LlamaIndex is the document processing platform for AI
- [Unstructured-IO/unstructured](https://seerepo.com/r/Unstructured-IO/unstructured): Convert documents to structured data effortlessly. Unstructured is open-source ETL solution for transforming complex documents into clean, structured formats for language models.  Visit our website to learn more about our enterprise grade Platform product for production grade workflows, partitioning, enrichments, chunking and embedding.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: beautifulsoup4, lxml, filetype, psutil
- 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, soupsieve, tinycss2, ipywidgets, matplotlib-inline, prompt-toolkit, matplotlib, Rich, SQLAlchemy, argon2-cffi, azure-identity, Google, google-auth-httplib2, google-auth-oauthlib, cryptography, pyjwt, msal, einops, firecrawl-py, guardrails-ai, llama-index-core, mem0ai, OpenAI, opencv-python, PaddlePaddle, tavily-python, torch, 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, bs4, html2text, unstructured, defusedxml, jinja2, pymupdf, 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, python-json-logger, boto3, docker, Alibaba Cloud, OpenTelemetry
- Only in unstructured: langdetect, spaCy, unstructured-client, html5lib, python-oxmsg, python-magic, nh3

## Side by side

| | llama_index | unstructured |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 473,236 lines written, 2,055 code files | 285,496 lines written, 315 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.2% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot | 2.4% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code and GitHub Copilot |
| Activity | Last push November 5, 2026, 7,963 commits, 52,820 stars | Last push November 6, 2026, 2,032 commits, 15,696 stars |
| Tests | 1,607 test files. 46.5% of its code files have a test that imports them | 131 test files. 34.3% 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, llama_index or unstructured?

llama_index, with 473,236 lines written; unstructured has 285,496.

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, llama_index or unstructured?

llama_index, with 52,820 stars; unstructured has 15,696.

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

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

llama_index, with 1,607 test files; unstructured has 131.

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, llama_index or unstructured?

unstructured: its last push was on November 6, 2026, and llama_index's on November 5, 2026.

The proof: [Unstructured-IO/unstructured's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/commits)

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

unstructured: an AI signed 2.4% of its commits, with Claude Code and GitHub Copilot; in llama_index, 0.2%.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in Unstructured-IO/unstructured](https://seerepo.com/r/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/ai)

## Sources

- run-llama/llama_index: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit 444fdf0 (https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/tree/444fdf0684707de62ebb447d658dba137dd9cb99)
- Unstructured-IO/unstructured: Read on November 7, 2026, at commit 293d235 (https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/tree/293d235cfcd5f5e89c3cc5ff85562005e182ae33)

## 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.