9 alternatives to FastChat
lm-sys/fastchat — An open platform for training, serving, and evaluating large language models. Release repo for Vicuna and Chatbot Arena. (39,551 stars, Apache-2.0, ai, files, integration).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 128 licence-cleared components from lm-sys/fastchat itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | simonw/llm | 8.0 | Apache-2.0 | 12,673 |
| 2 | nousresearch/nanotron | 4.9 | Apache-2.0 | 9 |
| 3 | qwenlm/qwen | 4.6 | Apache-2.0 | 22,001 |
| 4 | nousresearch/torchtitan | 4.8 | BSD-3-Clause | 30 |
| 5 | mcgill-nlp/llm2vec | 7.6 | MIT | 1,728 |
| 6 | optimalscale/lmflow | 5.8 | Apache-2.0 | 8,482 |
| 7 | openlmlab/moss-rlhf | 5.6 | Apache-2.0 | 1,428 |
| 8 | alfredfrancis/ai-chatbot-framework | 5.3 | MIT | 2,167 |
| 9 | nousresearch/lm-evaluation-harness-pretraining | 4.5 | MIT | 2 |
The alternatives in detail
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Access large language models from the command-linescore 8.0/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 12,673 stars · 16 components · search them
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Minimalistic large language model 3D-parallelism trainingscore 4.9/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 9 stars · 69 components · search them
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The official repo of Qwen (通义千问) chat & pretrained large language model proposed by Alibaba Cloud.score 4.6/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 22,001 stars · 33 components · search them
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A PyTorch native library for large model trainingscore 4.8/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 30 stars · 254 components · search them
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Code for 'LLM2Vec: Large Language Models Are Secretly Powerful Text Encoders'score 7.6/10 · MIT permissive · 1,728 stars · 20 components · search them
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An Extensible Toolkit for Finetuning and Inference of Large Foundation Models. Large Models for All.score 5.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 8,482 stars · 138 components · search them
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Secrets of RLHF in Large Language Models Part I: PPOscore 5.6/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,428 stars · 15 components · search them
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A python chatbot framework with Natural Language Understanding and Artificial Intelligence.score 5.3/10 · MIT permissive · 2,167 stars · 63 components · search them
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A framework for few-shot evaluation of language models.score 4.5/10 · MIT permissive · 2 stars · 651 components · search them
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