Is LitGPT Still Maintained? Live GitHub Status
On GitHub, the project describes itself as: “20+ high-performance LLMs with recipes to pretrain, finetune and deploy at scale.”
Short answer: Yes, but development has slowed. Health score 42/100. Checked 18 Oct 2026.
What the numbers say
LitGPT’s main branch received 9 commits in the last 91 days, against 26 in the same 91 days a year earlier (−65%). That is less than half of last year’s pace, which the index labels “slowing down”. It has 13,717 stars on GitHub.
LitGPT usage: downloads and installs
litgptTrend: the monthly download count is stored once a day, starting 17 Oct 2026. A chart appears here after a week of readings.
Download and pull counts include automated installs from CI pipelines, containers and mirrors, so they show how widely the software is pulled, not how many people use it. Numbers from different registries are not comparable with each other. Sources: PyPI download statistics via ecosyste.ms, read 18 Oct 2026, 22:03 UTC.
LitGPT security practices and adoption
Used by other projects
deps.dev: PyPI packages that depend on litgpt 0.5.13
- Indirect dependents0
- All dependents3
- RegistryPyPI
Latest release
GitHub: files attached to the latest release and how often they were downloaded
- Versionv0.5.13
- Published29 Jun 2026
- Downloads of its 2 files174
- Contributors133
Scorecard checks security practices such as code review, branch protection and pinned dependencies; it does not find bugs, and a low score does not mean the software is unsafe. Dependents and download counts show reach, not quality. Sources: deps.dev, GitHub, read 18 Oct 2026, 22:36 UTC.
Health score breakdown
| Part | Points | Based on |
|---|---|---|
| Activity | 12.6 / 35 | 9 commits in the last 91 days (full marks at 600) |
| Trend | 6.9 / 20 | 35% of last year’s pace (full marks at 100%) |
| Recency | 7.0 / 15 | last commit 39 days ago |
| Releases | 7.0 / 10 | latest GitHub release 111 days ago |
| Community | 8.1 / 20 | 9 pull requests merged in the last 91 days (full marks at 300) |
Open issues and pull requests: 315. The score summarises maintenance signals only, not quality or security. How the score works
LitGPT: common questions
Is LitGPT still maintained?
Yes, but development has slowed. As of 18 October 2026, LitGPT received 9 commits in the last 91 days, less than half of its pace a year earlier; the latest commit is from 9 September 2026. Its health score is 42 out of 100.
What is the latest LitGPT release?
The latest GitHub release of LitGPT is v0.5.13, published on 29 June 2026.
How many people contribute to LitGPT?
GitHub lists 133 contributors for LitGPT. 9 pull requests were merged in the last 91 days.
What licence does LitGPT use?
GitHub identifies the LitGPT licence as Apache-2.0. Read the licence file before commercial use.
How many times is LitGPT downloaded?
The litgpt package on PyPI was downloaded 9,632 times in the last month, according to ecosyste.ms (checked 18 October 2026). The count includes automated installs from CI pipelines and mirrors, so it is not a count of users.
How is the health score calculated?
It adds five parts from public GitHub data: commit activity over 91 days (35 points), the trend against the same period last year (20), how recent the last commit is (15), how recent the last release is (10) and merged pull requests (20). Archived projects score 0; a maintenance notice caps the score at 25. It measures maintenance signals only, not code quality or security.
Visitor rating
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Ratings come from visitors, not from EvalAITools, and are not part of the health status above. One rating per visitor per tool every 30 days.
Daily snapshots
| Date (UTC) | Stars | Commits, last 91 days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Oct 2026 | 13,714 | 9 | Slowing down |
| 17 Oct 2026 | 13,712 | 9 | Slowing down |
One snapshot is stored per day, starting 16 October 2026. No status change has been recorded for LitGPT since then.
Other fine-tuning & training
Status badge
Show LitGPT’s live maintenance status in a README. The badge updates with this page and links back to it.
[](https://evalaitools.com/tools/litgpt/)How this is measured: commits on the repository’s default branch counted through the GitHub API, the last 91 days against the same 91 days a year earlier; archived flag and licence from the repository; README checked daily for maintenance notices. Commit counts measure activity, not quality, and we have not tested this tool ourselves for this page.