Pipecat vs Rasa
Pipecat leads on trust: 87.1/100 (Grade A) against 57.2/100 (Grade C), a 29.9-point gap. Pipecat leads on supply-chain integrity and maintenance.
Open Source framework for voice agents, multimodal apps, and realtime AI. Maintained by Daily and the community.
Choose Pipecat if supply-chain integrity and maintenance matter most.
- +14.7Maintenance: last push 1d ago, against 102d ago
- +8.5Safety / Integrity: OSSF Scorecard 7.5 against 5.3
- +7.2Identity / Provenance: package provenance attested, against none
- +1.9Transparency: OSSF Scorecard 7.5 against 5.3
💬 Open source machine learning framework to automate text- and voice-based conversations: NLU, dialogue management, connect to Slack, Facebook, and more - Create chatbots and voice assistants
Rasa doesn't lead on any scored dimension in this pair.
Where they differ
An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of Pipecat and Rasa, two Voice & Conversational projects in the HVTracker registry. Scores come from public, checkable signals — supply-chain provenance, OSSF Scorecard, maintenance, and adoption — not popularity.
Full evidence
| Signal | Pipecatpipecat-ai/pipecat | RasaRasaHQ/rasa |
|---|---|---|
| HVTrust score | 87.1 | 57.2 |
| Evidence grade | A | C |
| Coverage grade | A | A |
| Overall rank | #73 | #784 |
| Rank in Voice & Conversational | #3 | #10 |
| GitHub stars | 17.0k | 21.4k |
| Last updated | 1d ago | 102d ago |
| Build provenance | Yes | No |
| OSSF Scorecard | 7.5 / 10 | 5.3 / 10 |
| License | BSD-2-Clause | Apache-2.0 |
| Downloads | 348k/wk | 40k/wk |
| Trust dimensions (points earned) | ||
| Safety / integrity / 25 | 18.1 | 9.6 |
| Identity & provenance / 18 | 18.0 | 10.8 |
| Transparency / 17 | 14.9 | 13.0 |
| Maintenance / 20 | 19.9 | 5.2 |
| Adoption / 20 | 17.5 | 16.5 |
| Runtime capability surface (full matrix) | ||
| MCP server | — | — |
| External providers | 7 — Anthropic, Google Gemini, Groq, … | 3 — Amazon Bedrock, Postgres, Redis |
| Requires API keys | No | No |
| Plugin surface | plugins | plugins |
| Provenance drift | Match | Match |
How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption, scaled by an evidence-confidence factor. Grade bands: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Signals refresh daily. Full methodology v4.4 →