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Tools · ml frameworks · Alternatives

spaCy alternatives

As of 4 November 2026, 39 ml frameworks are named by companies instead of spaCy: 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.

spaCy, companies in postings
193
Most used alternative
PyTorch · 5,581
Fastest hiring, 90 days
PyTorch
Alternatives ranked
39
Catalogue
T-1.0.1-prov
01Ranked by evidence

ml frameworks companies choose instead of spaCy

Companies naming each tool in their own postings, and postings in the last 90 days. Bars are relative to the category leader.

#AlternativeCompaniescompaniesvs spaCypostings, 90 dCompare
1
PyTorchPyTorch Foundation
5,5812892%17,504spaCy vs PyTorch →
2
4,3872273%12,007spaCy vs TensorFlow →
3
scikit-learnscikit-learn developers
1,639849%3,810spaCy vs scikit-learn →
4
OpenCVOpenCV.org
812421%1,586spaCy vs OpenCV →
5
JAXGoogle
740383%1,878spaCy vs JAX →
6
616319%1,263spaCy vs Hugging Face Transformers →
7
KerasGoogle
605313%1,320spaCy vs Keras →
8
574297%1,097spaCy vs XGBoost →
9
ONNXLinux Foundation
435225%835spaCy vs ONNX →
10
LightGBMMicrosoft
267138%511spaCy vs LightGBM →
11
Core MLApple
214111%426spaCy vs Core ML →
12
DeepSpeedMicrosoft
207107%328spaCy vs DeepSpeed →
13
Hugging Face PEFTHugging Face
205106%508spaCy vs Hugging Face PEFT →
14
16384%269spaCy vs PyTorch FSDP →
15
YOLOUltralytics
16384%281spaCy vs YOLO →
16
NLTKNLTK Project
14575%278spaCy vs NLTK →
17
12766%513soon
18
11359%284soon
19
11158%579soon
20
SHAPSHAP
10052%215soon
21
Apache TVMApache Software Foundation
9449%256soon
22
XLAOpenXLA
7941%246soon
23
TRLHugging Face
6132%96soon
24
Spark MLlibApache Software Foundation
6031%175soon
25
5227%142soon
26
LIMELIME
5026%110soon
27
CatBoostYandex
4724%94soon
28
CaffeBAIR
4523%87soon
29
HALCONMVTec
4222%113soon
30
verl
4021%113soon
31
scikit-imagescikit-image
3719%69soon
32
Amazon ComprehendAmazon
3418%81soon
33
GensimRARE Technologies
3418%54soon
34
FlashAttentionDao-AILab
2815%92soon
35
Apache MXNetApache Software Foundation
2714%146soon
36
GymnasiumFarama Foundation
2714%41soon
37
MediaPipeGoogle
2513%24soon
38
IREEOpenXLA
2312%53soon
39
MLXApple
2312%74soon
18,225 companies name a ml framework in their postings.

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39 ml frameworks are named by companies instead of spaCy: 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/spacy/alternatives)
How we know

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Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →

  • 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.
FAQ

spaCy alternatives: questions

What is the most used alternative to spaCy?

PyTorch: 5,581 companies name it in their own job postings, against 193 for spaCy.

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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