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PaddlePaddle

PaddlePaddle

PaddlePaddle is a deep learning framework developed by Baidu, covering training and inference in one codebase. Release 3.2 unifies dynamic and static graphs with automatic parallelism, deriving a distributed strategy from tensor partitioning annotations written against a single-device configuration, and adds high-order differentiation for scientific computing.

Verified 2026-08-31 via the repository LICENSE and README and the PyPI project page.

Openness

5 high confidence
5.0
license
Apache-2.0(OSI)
source
public(PaddlePaddle/Paddle)
core-gated
ungated(no enterprise or ee path in the repository root and no paid tier described in the README)

Apache-2.0, an OSI licence, with the full source public and the shipped code in this repository. The LICENSE body was read in full. A copyright line for the PaddlePaddle Authors is prepended above the licence text, which is why an automated reader can report the file as non-standard; the remainder is byte-identical to the canonical Apache-2.0 template and nothing follows END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS but the standard appendix. No enterprise or ee path in the repository root and no paid tier described in the readme.

Adoption

4 high confidence
4.0

Banded on the authoritative PyPI route: 1,785,666 downloads in the last 30 days for the paddlepaddle package, which places it at level 4. The repository carries 24,064 stars, but stars rank below every real usage signal and are recorded here only as corroboration.

Capability

5 medium confidence
5.0

Scored 5 on framework scope. Paddle is a foundational framework in the same sense as pytorch and tensorflow, which both sit at 5 here: it owns its own graph engine, distributed execution and deployment path rather than building on somebody else's. Its automatic-parallelism and integrated training-inference design are the distinguishing claims.

  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle/develop/README.md recorded 2026-08-31

    The 'PaddlePaddle New Generation Framework 3.2' section documents unified dynamic/static graphs with automatic parallelism from single-card tensor partitioning annotations, integrated training and inference for large models within one framework, and high-order differentiation for scientific computing.

Verified 2026-08-31