Opik vs Svix

Both are self-hosted software development - api management projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Opik scores 89 against Svix's 81, putting it slightly ahead on the strength of a higher commit volume and a larger community. That measures project health, not feature fit — Svix may still be the right choice if it does what you need.
OpikSvix
Health score 89/100 81/100
Commits (11 mo) 3910 678
Commits (last 3 mo) 940 340
Stars 22k 3.4k
Latest release 25 Sept 2026 11 Sept 2026
Licence Apache-2.0 MIT
Built with Docker, Python Docker, Rust
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

Opik

Evaluate, test, and ship LLM applications with a suite of observability tools to calibrate language model outputs across your dev and production lifecycle.

89/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 38/40
Releases 25/25
Community 18/20
Momentum 8/15

Commit activity more than 95% of tracked projects; popularity more than 89%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 409 commits 2025-11: 388 commits 2025-12: 289 commits 2026-01: 329 commits 2026-02: 308 commits 2026-03: 454 commits 2026-04: 496 commits 2026-05: 297 commits 2026-06: 302 commits 2026-07: 343 commits 2026-08: 295 commits

Svix

Webhooks as a service that makes it super easy for API providers to send webhooks.

81/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 29/40
Releases 25/25
Community 12/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 72% of tracked projects; popularity more than 60%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 60 commits 2025-11: 12 commits 2025-12: 32 commits 2026-01: 12 commits 2026-02: 22 commits 2026-03: 47 commits 2026-04: 63 commits 2026-05: 90 commits 2026-06: 70 commits 2026-07: 168 commits 2026-08: 102 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

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