# instill-ai/instill-core

🔮 Instill Core is a full-stack AI infrastructure tool for data, model and pipeline orchestration, designed to streamline every aspect of building versatile AI-first applications

Repository: https://github.com/instill-ai/instill-core
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/instill-core
Homepage: https://www.instill-ai.com
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: unstructured-data, low-code, developer-tools, etl, no-code, open-source, hacktoberfest, ai, api, cli, generative-ai, golang, gpt, llm, pipeline, python, stable-diffusion, typescript
Last push: 2026-06-01T22:37:41+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 76/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 85, release rhythm 51, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1693, "days_push": 93, "days_rel": 324, "gap_med": 13.5, "n_releases_24m": 9}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2321, forks 125 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:37.141198+00:00)

## What it is
Instill Core is a full-stack AI infrastructure tool for data, model, and pipeline orchestration, aimed at building AI-first applications with low-code pipelines. The company behind it shut down its platform on 29 May 2026, so the project is no longer maintained.

## Use cases
- orchestrate ai pipelines with low-code
- process unstructured data for ai applications
- build generative ai apps without managing infrastructure
- run stable diffusion and llm pipelines
- etl for ai-first applications
- self-host ai model and data orchestration

## When to choose
- you want to fork and self-host an existing ai pipeline orchestration stack
- you need a reference architecture for ai data/model orchestration

## When to avoid
- you need maintained software with support - the platform closed in May 2026
- you want a production-ready managed service
- you need guaranteed security updates or bug fixes

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: abandoned
- function: etl, workflow-automation, llm-inference, rag, api-framework, cli
- domain: artificial-intelligence, large-language-models, developer-tools
- platform: self-hosted, python, go, cli
- tags: ai-infrastructure, pipeline-orchestration, low-code, unstructured-data, generative-ai, full-stack, shut-down, data-engineering, automation, docker, typescript

## Member repositories
- instill-ai/instill-core (main) score 76

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:37.141198+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:38:47.127380+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/instill-ai/instill-core (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:37.141198+00:00, sha a6fbf8664798)
  - homepage: https://www.instill-ai.com (fetched 2026-08-29T10:18:56.581828+00:00, sha a9fb94d64eaa)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.