LightGBM alternatives
As of 4 November 2026, 39 ml frameworks are named by companies instead of LightGBM: PyTorch by 5,581 companies, TensorFlow by 4,387, scikit-learn by 1,639.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- LightGBM, companies in postings
- 267
- Most used alternative
- PyTorch · 5,581
- Fastest hiring, 90 days
- PyTorch
- Alternatives ranked
- 39
- Catalogue
- T-1.0.1-prov
ml frameworks companies choose instead of LightGBM
Companies naming each tool in their own postings, and postings in the last 90 days. Bars are relative to the category leader.
| # | Alternative | Companies | companies | vs LightGBM | postings, 90 d | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PyTorchPyTorch Foundation | 5,581 | 2090% | 17,504 | LightGBM vs PyTorch → | |
| 2 | TensorFlowGoogle | 4,387 | 1643% | 12,007 | LightGBM vs TensorFlow → | |
| 3 | scikit-learnscikit-learn developers | 1,639 | 614% | 3,810 | LightGBM vs scikit-learn → | |
| 4 | OpenCVOpenCV.org | 812 | 304% | 1,586 | LightGBM vs OpenCV → | |
| 5 | JAXGoogle | 740 | 277% | 1,878 | LightGBM vs JAX → | |
| 6 | Hugging Face TransformersHugging Face | 616 | 231% | 1,263 | LightGBM vs Hugging Face Transformers → | |
| 7 | KerasGoogle | 605 | 227% | 1,320 | LightGBM vs Keras → | |
| 8 | XGBoostDMLC | 574 | 215% | 1,097 | LightGBM vs XGBoost → | |
| 9 | ONNXLinux Foundation | 435 | 163% | 835 | LightGBM vs ONNX → | |
| 10 | Core MLApple | 214 | 80% | 426 | LightGBM vs Core ML → | |
| 11 | DeepSpeedMicrosoft | 207 | 78% | 328 | LightGBM vs DeepSpeed → | |
| 12 | Hugging Face PEFTHugging Face | 205 | 77% | 508 | LightGBM vs Hugging Face PEFT → | |
| 13 | spaCyExplosion | 193 | 72% | 388 | LightGBM vs spaCy → | |
| 14 | PyTorch FSDPMeta | 163 | 61% | 269 | LightGBM vs PyTorch FSDP → | |
| 15 | YOLOUltralytics | 163 | 61% | 281 | LightGBM vs YOLO → | |
| 16 | NLTKNLTK Project | 145 | 54% | 278 | LightGBM vs NLTK → | |
| 17 | TensorFlow LiteGoogle | 127 | 48% | 513 | soon | |
| 18 | Megatron-LMNVIDIA | 113 | 42% | 284 | soon | |
| 19 | NVIDIA NeMoNVIDIA | 111 | 42% | 579 | soon | |
| 20 | SHAPSHAP | 100 | 37% | 215 | soon | |
| 21 | Apache TVMApache Software Foundation | 94 | 35% | 256 | soon | |
| 22 | XLAOpenXLA | 79 | 30% | 246 | soon | |
| 23 | TRLHugging Face | 61 | 23% | 96 | soon | |
| 24 | Spark MLlibApache Software Foundation | 60 | 22% | 175 | soon | |
| 25 | 52 | 19% | 142 | soon | ||
| 26 | LIMELIME | 50 | 19% | 110 | soon | |
| 27 | CatBoostYandex | 47 | 18% | 94 | soon | |
| 28 | CaffeBAIR | 45 | 17% | 87 | soon | |
| 29 | HALCONMVTec | 42 | 16% | 113 | soon | |
| 30 | verl | 40 | 15% | 113 | soon | |
| 31 | scikit-imagescikit-image | 37 | 14% | 69 | soon | |
| 32 | Amazon ComprehendAmazon | 34 | 13% | 81 | soon | |
| 33 | GensimRARE Technologies | 34 | 13% | 54 | soon | |
| 34 | FlashAttentionDao-AILab | 28 | 10% | 92 | soon | |
| 35 | Apache MXNetApache Software Foundation | 27 | 10% | 146 | soon | |
| 36 | GymnasiumFarama Foundation | 27 | 10% | 41 | soon | |
| 37 | MediaPipeGoogle | 25 | 9% | 24 | soon | |
| 38 | IREEOpenXLA | 23 | 9% | 53 | soon | |
| 39 | MLXApple | 23 | 9% | 74 | soon |
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39 ml frameworks are named by companies instead of LightGBM: PyTorch by 5,581 companies, TensorFlow by 4,387, scikit-learn by 1,639, measured from their own job postings. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/tools/lightgbm/alternatives)
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- RankingCompanies whose own postings name the tool as the team's system, from the Breaknorm technology catalogue T-1.0.1-prov. Editions are folded into their parent product.
- 90-day postingsOpen postings first seen or posted in the last 90 days that name the tool.
- Not includedRatings, prices, feature claims, sponsored positions.
LightGBM alternatives: questions
What is the most used alternative to LightGBM?
PyTorch: 5,581 companies name it in their own job postings, against 267 for LightGBM.
How is this list ranked?
By the number of companies whose own postings name the tool as the team's system (Breaknorm technology catalogue T-1.0.1-prov), then by postings in the last 90 days. No ratings, no vendor input, no sponsored positions.
Does this say which is better?
No. It says who uses what, by company size, industry and country, so you can see which tools companies like yours choose. For features and prices, read the vendors.
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