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Rust crate alternatives · data Oct 27, 2026
Alternatives to mistralrs
Short answerThe closest alternatives to mistralrs on crates.io data are ort (98.1K real downloads a day), anthropic-sdk (26 real downloads a day), async-openai (34.7K real downloads a day). Of the 8 we list, the most used is socket2, and 7 shipped a release in the last year. mistralrs itself gets 1,216 a day with 27 dependents.
Every alternative we found
| Alternative | Real downloads a day | vs mistralrs | Dependents | Last release | Why it is listed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ort Established | 98,059 | 80.64x | 676 | 8d | category Science, keyword "ai", keyword "machine-learning" | compare |
| anthropic-sdk Pulled in | 26 | 0.02x | 3 | 2.3y | category API bindings, keyword "ai", keyword "llm" | compare |
| async-openai Established | 34,654 | 28.50x | 280 | 17d | category API bindings, keyword "ai" | compare |
| tch Established | 28,195 | 23.19x | 132 | 2mo | category Science, keyword "machine-learning" | compare |
| lance Pulled in | 22,286 | 18.33x | 36 | 20d | category Science, keyword "machine-learning" | compare |
| burn Established | 6,262 | 5.15x | 363 | 7d | category Science, keyword "machine-learning" | compare |
| cudarc Established | 43,072 | 35.42x | 343 | 33d | category API bindings, category Science | compare |
| socket2 Widely used | 4,034,112 | 3317.53x | 1,539 | 3mo | category API bindings | compare |
How to choose
- Same job, not the same API. Each line is listed because it shares a crates.io category or keyword with mistralrs; read its description before you swap.
- More dependents means more answered questions and a smaller chance it disappears.
- Check the last release against how fast you need fixes. For mistralrs: is it still maintained?
Rules
Alternatives = tracked crates (top 1000 by downloads) that share a specific crates.io category (2 points each) or keyword (3 points each) with mistralrs, most similar first; its own parts (same name prefix) and crates it depends on or that depend on it are left out, because those are companions, not substitutes. Real downloads = quiet-day median, crates.io data Oct 27, 2026. Built when we find 3 or more.
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