Ray
AnyscaleRay-2.55.1, released April 22, 2026 (GitHub). Ray joined the PyTorch Foundation (per Anyscale 2026 announcement). Confirmed to exist as of June 2026.
Ray-2.55.1, released April 22, 2026 (GitHub). Ray joined the PyTorch Foundation (per Anyscale 2026 announcement). Confirmed to exist as of June 2026.
Openness
4 high confidence- license
- Apache-2.0(OSI)
- source
- public(all Ray libraries OSS)
- commercial-tier
- Anyscale managed SaaS on top
- core-gated
- gated
license:Apache-2.0(OSI);source:public(all Ray libraries OSS);commercial-tier:Anyscale managed SaaS on top
- https://github.com/ray-project/ray recorded 2026-06-04
flagship phase-C verification source
- https://www.anyscale.com/product/open-source/ray recorded 2026-06-04
flagship phase-C verification source
- https://www.anyscale.com/blog/ray-by-anyscale-joins-pytorch-foundation recorded 2026-06-04
flagship phase-C verification source
Adoption
5 high confidenceRe-scored 4->5. The prior record had no verified download count (reported_traction). Direct registry data now shows ray at 61.31M PyPI downloads in the last 30 days, comfortably above the map's prevailing usage_volume level-5 floor of >10M/mo (and above even the stricter 50M floor the HF-stack files use, cf. pytorch ~88.6M, triton ~64.7M at level 5). Ray is the standard open distributed-compute / model-serving substrate (Ray Serve, Tune, Train, Data) under the PyTorch Foundation.
- https://pepy.tech/projects/ray recorded 2026-06-25
61,306,813 downloads in last 30 days
- https://www.anyscale.com/blog/ray-by-anyscale-joins-pytorch-foundation recorded 2026-06-04
Ray under the PyTorch Foundation (governance / ecosystem standing)
Capability
4 high confidenceGeneral distributed-compute + model-serving framework (Ray Core, Serve, Tune, Train, Data). No standardized inference/training benchmark (MLPerf) applies to Ray as a whole; scored on breadth of distributed-serving feature coverage. Not directly comparable to single-engine inference benchmarks.
- https://www.anyscale.com/product/open-source/ray recorded 2026-06-04
flagship phase-C verification source
- https://docs.anyscale.com/get-started/what-is-ray recorded 2026-06-04
flagship phase-C verification source
Unchanged since 2026-07-30 (last edited, not re-checked)