# Oxen-AI/Oxen

Lightning fast data version control system for large repositories of data. Feels like git, pushes and pulls like oxen.

Repository: https://github.com/Oxen-AI/Oxen
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/oxen
Homepage: https://oxen.ai
Language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: machine-learning, python, rust, version-control, data-version-control, data-versioning, git-for-data, unstructured-data, vcs
Last push: 2026-09-03T00:06:13+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 96/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 100, release rhythm 88, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1493, "days_push": 0, "days_rel": 0, "gap_med": 5, "n_releases_24m": 78}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1184, forks 35 (observed 2026-09-03T02:15:07.017516+00:00)

## What it is
Oxen is a fast data version control system written in Rust that versions large datasets (images, audio, video, text, parquet) with a git-like workflow. It ships as a CLI, Python package, HTTP API server, and embeddable Rust library, with hosted or self-hosted repository hosting.

## Use cases
- version control for large image datasets
- git for machine learning training data
- version model weights and checkpoints
- manage millions of files in a data repository
- collaborate on dataset annotations with branching
- self-hosted data version control server
- version parquet files with millions of rows

## When to choose
- you need to version terabytes of data or millions of files where git and git-lfs fall short
- your team branches, commits, and merges changes to ML datasets like code
- you want a git-like CLI plus Python SDK for data versioning
- you need fast indexing and transfer of unstructured media assets

## When to avoid
- you only version small text source code - plain git is simpler
- you need general-purpose object storage rather than versioned repositories
- you require a mature ecosystem with broad third-party integrations

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: version-control, developer-tools, file-system, data-science
- domain: machine-learning, developer-tools, version-control
- platform: rust, python, cli, cross-platform, self-hosted, windows
- tags: data-version-control, git-for-data, large-datasets, merkle-tree, dataset-management, model-weights, unstructured-data, parquet, data-engineering, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- Oxen-AI/Oxen (main) score 96

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:07.017516+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 2026-08-30T06:25:14.215517+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Oxen-AI/Oxen (fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:07.017516+00:00, sha 0d6817c1d010)
  - homepage: https://oxen.ai (fetched 2026-08-29T12:32:10.220943+00:00, sha ec10b0928088)
  - site_page: https://docs.oxen.ai (fetched 2026-08-29T12:32:10.232204+00:00, sha a8c3ac651a74)
  - site_page: https://www.oxen.ai/pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T12:32:10.230245+00:00, sha 404d9629c13a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.