# spaCy vs Stanford CoreNLP

| Attribute | spaCy | Stanford CoreNLP |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 49.2 (32% (low)) | 44.7 (24% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 13 | 0 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 15,793 | 7 |
| adoption.github_stars | 33,849 | 10,102 |
| deployment.options | `{"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | An open-source natural language processing library designed for building real-world applications. It excels at large-scale information extraction and has become an industry standard since 2015 with a robust ecosystem of plugins. | An open-source toolkit that analyzes text to extract linguistic features including word boundaries, grammatical tags, entities, dependency relationships, and semantic properties, supporting eight languages. |
| integrations.count | 1 | - |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"PyTorch"}]` | - |
| language.primary | Python | Java |
| license.spdx | MIT | GPL-3.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","summary":"Free, open-source library","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://spacy.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-19T14:46:03.884Z"}` | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://stanfordnlp.github.io/CoreNLP/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-19T16:05:04.600Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | free | free |
| pricing.transparent | - | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 20 | 92 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| security.scorecard | 5.2 | 2.6 |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=spacy&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=edu.stanford.nlp%3Astanford-kbp&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (NLP Apis)

| Capability | spaCy | Stanford CoreNLP |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Custom model training | - | - |
| Domain specific models | - | - |
| Deployment model | - | - |
| Batch processing | - | - |
| Real time latency | - | - |
| Embeddings endpoint | - | - |
| Data residency EU | - | - |
| Open source | - | - |
| Pricing model | - | - |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T14:46:47.970Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*