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Ray

Anyscale

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.

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
4.0
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

Adoption

5 high confidence
5.0

Re-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.

Capability

4 high confidence
4.0

General 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.

Unchanged since 2026-07-30 (last edited, not re-checked)