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Transformers license, foundation and stars

ML frameworks · Apache 2.0 (open source) · backed by Hugging Face · 168,652 stars

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Transformers: the model-definition framework for state-of-the-art machine learning models in text, vision, audio, and multimodal models, for both inference and training.

License history

LICENSE file

Apache 2.0 No license change recorded since the repository was created in 2018.

Latest release

v5.17.0 published Sep 9, 2026

About and history
Repository
huggingface/transformers · created Oct 29, 2018
Website
huggingface.co/transformers
Language
Python
Foundation
None; run by Hugging Face
Company
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GitHub detects
Apache-2.0
Stars per week
337 (GitHub weekly snapshots)

Weekly snapshots

Week ofStars
Nov 2, 2026168,652
Oct 26, 2026168,334
Oct 12, 2026167,813
Oct 5, 2026166,894
Sep 21, 2026166,630

Changes

Stars per weekNov 8, 2026

Gains about 337 stars a week, down from 341.

Stars per weekOct 29, 2026

Gains about 341 stars a week, down from 394.

Stars per weekOct 18, 2026

Gains about 394 stars a week, up from 132.

Stars per weekOct 9, 2026

Gains about 132 stars a week, down from 652.

TrackedSep 24, 2026

Now tracked, from huggingface/transformers on GitHub.