Side-by-Side Comparison
open-payments vs smg
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Recorded Stars Comparison
● interledger/open-payments (550)
● smg-project/smg (551)
☆ 550open-payments stars
☆ 551smg stars
+1Difference
smgStar Leader (1.0x)
⚖️ Comparison Verdict
Star Popularity
smg Leads
+1 stars (1.0x ratio)
Forks & Derivatives
smg Leads
176 total community forks
Recent Maintenance
open-payments
Pushed 1d ago
Licensing
Apache-2.0
Both share open license
Side-by-Side Facts
| Metric | interledger/open-payments ↗ | smg-project/smg ↗ |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Protocol to setup payments between entities on the Web based on GNAP | Engine-agnostic LLM gateway in Rust. Full OpenAI & Anthropic API compatibility across vLLM, TRT-LLM, TokenSpeed, SGLang, OpenAI, Gemini & more. Industry-first gRPC pipeline, KV cache-aware routing, chat history, tokenization caching, Responses API, embeddings, WASM plugins, MCP, and multi-tenant auth. |
| GitHub Stars | ☆ 550 | ☆ 551 |
| Forks | 64 | 176 |
| Open Issues | 2 | 101 |
| Main Language | Rust | Rust |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Last Push | Oct 15, 2026 | Oct 2, 2026 |
| GitHub Source | Open Source ↗ | Open Source ↗ |
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