Keras
GoogleKeras is a high-level deep learning framework billed as 'Deep Learning for humans'; Keras 3 is multi-backend, running on JAX, TensorFlow, PyTorch, and OpenVINO (inference only). It is maintained by the keras-team organization, closely tied to Google. It provides an accessible API for building and training models while letting users choose the underlying backend.
Verified 2026-08-13 via GitHub and the GitHub license API.
Openness
5 high confidence- license
- Apache-2.0(OSI)
- source
- public
- core-gated
- ungated
Apache-2.0 licensed with full public source. The repository is public and unarchived, and the README describes the whole library with no paid, enterprise or hosted tier beside it, so source is public and the core ungated.
- https://github.com/keras-team/keras recorded 2026-08-13
Repo page still shows the Apache-2.0 license and the full public source tree
- https://api.github.com/repos/keras-team/keras recorded 2026-08-13
Repo metadata - license spdx_id Apache-2.0, private false, archived false, default branch master - for keras-team/keras.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keras-team/keras/master/README.md recorded 2026-08-13
README describes Keras 3 as a multi-backend deep learning framework over JAX, TensorFlow, PyTorch and OpenVINO, installed with pip. No paid tier or hosted edition appears.
Adoption
5 high confidence18,774,405 PyPI downloads of `keras` in the trailing 30 days, which clears the top band of the software usage scale, over 10M a month, level 5. That is the same band other products on this map hold at comparable volume - pydantic-ai at around 31M, llama-index at around 10.18M. Keras is the standard high-level training API across TensorFlow, JAX and PyTorch.
- https://pepy.tech/projects/keras recorded 2026-08-13
18,774,405 downloads in the last 30 days for keras
Capability
4 high confidenceCentral API layer but sits atop lower-level frameworks rather than defining the compute layer.
- https://github.com/keras-team/keras recorded 2026-08-13
README still describes Keras 3 as a multi-backend deep learning framework over JAX, TensorFlow, PyTorch and OpenVINO
Verified 2026-08-13