TensorFlow Alternatives

TensorFlow is described as 'Open source software library for machine learning in various kinds of perceptual and language understanding tasks' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to TensorFlow for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Web-based and Python apps. The best TensorFlow alternative is PyTorch, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like TensorFlow are tinygrad, Keras, TFLearn and micrograd.

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  1. PyTorch icon
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    PyTorch enables fast, flexible experimentation and efficient production through a hybrid front-end, distributed training, and ecosystem of tools and libraries.

    11 PyTorch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • PyTorch is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to TensorFlow.

    • PyTorch is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to TensorFlow.

    • PyTorch is Free and Open SourceTensorFlow is also Free and Open Source
  2. tinygrad icon
     5 likes

    This may not be the best deep learning framework, but it is a deep learning framework.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python
     
  3. Keras icon
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    Keras is a deep learning API written in Python and capable of running on top of either JAX, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Linux
    • Mac
     
    • Keras is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to TensorFlow.

    • Keras is Free and Open SourceTensorFlow is also Free and Open Source
  4. TFLearn icon
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    TFlearn is a modular and transparent deep learning library built on top of Tensorflow. It was designed to provide a higher-level API to TensorFlow in order to facilitate and speed-up experimentations, while remaining fully transparent and compatible with it.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • TensorFlow
    • Python
     
  5.  1 like

    A tiny Autograd engine (with a bite! :)). Implements backpropagation (reverse-mode autodiff) over a dynamically built DAG and a small neural networks library on top of it with a PyTorch-like API. Both are tiny, with about 100 and 50 lines of code respectively.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • BSD
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Python
     
  6. PyCaret icon
     1 like

    PyCaret is an open source low-code machine learning library in Python that aims to reduce the hypothesis to insights cycle time in a ML experiment. It enables data scientists to perform end-to-end experiments quickly and efficiently.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
     
  7. mlpack icon
     2 likes

    mlpack is a C++ machine learning library with emphasis on scalability, speed, and ease-of-use. Its aim is to make machine learning possible for novice users by means of a simple, consistent API, while simultaneously exploiting C++ language features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
    • mlpack is the most popular Web-based alternative to TensorFlow.

    • mlpack is Free and Open SourceTensorFlow is also Free and Open Source
  8. Training Mule allows you or your team to easily label images, providing you with the datasets that you require for the best results. With your images labelled, we will train the network of your choice and provide you with the model ready for use.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Darknet icon
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    Darknet: Open Source Neural Networks in C Darknet is an open source neural network framework written in C and CUDA. It is fast, easy to install, and supports CPU and GPU computation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. Eclipse Deeplearning4j is the first commercial-grade, open-source, distributed deep-learning library written for Java and Scala. Integrated with Hadoop and Apache Spark, DL4J brings AI to business environments for use on distributed GPUs and CPUs.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Java
     
  11. CatBoost icon
     1 like

    CatBoost is an open-source gradient boosting on decision trees library with categorical features support out of the box for Python, R.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. SmartPredict icon
     6 likes

    An automated AI platform, based on AutoML 2.0, for designing AI projects in a simpler and customizable way. Become agile, save yourself from staff and hardware worries, and skyrocket your business quickly.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • SmartPredict is the most popular SaaS alternative to TensorFlow.

    • SmartPredict is Freemium and ProprietaryTensorFlow is Free and Open Source
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