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Caffe vs PyTorch comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Caffe
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
25th
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
PyTorch
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
7th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the AI Development Platforms category, the mindshare of Caffe is 0.4%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PyTorch is 3.0%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Development Platforms Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
PyTorch3.0%
Caffe0.4%
Other96.6%
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Featured Reviews

RL
Speeds up the development process but needs to evolve more to stay relevant
In the future, they should expand text processing, for a recommendation system, or to support some other models as well — that would be great. The concept of Caffe is a little bit complex because it was developed and based in C++. They need to make it easier for a new developer, data scientist, or a new machine or deep learning engineer to understand it. You can't work with metrics and vectors as Python does. Python is a vector-oriented language, but Caffe is not. When you deal with memory in C++, you have to allocate the data you will use in memory. You have to manage everything in C++. Conversely, in Python, you don't need to do that since everything is abstract and done by Python itself. It depends on every use case or your requirement goals. Some clients will require you to use Caffe because maybe their projects are old and they want to continue with Caffe. Others are comfortable with their current situation or they are afraid of migrating to another library. From my point of view, they need to make it easier for a new developer to use it. They should incorporate Python API to make it richer, overall.
Rohan Sharma - PeerSpot reviewer
Enabled creation of innovative projects through developer-friendly features
The aspect I like most about PyTorch is that it is really developer-friendly. Developers can constantly create new things, and everyone around the world can use it for free because it's an open-source product. What I personally like is that PyTorch has enabled users to use Apple's M1 chip natively for GPU users. Unlike other libraries using CUDA, PyTorch utilizes Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) to enable GPU usage on M1 chips.

Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Caffe has helped our company become up-to-date in the market and has helped us speed up the development process of our projects."
"For me, the product's initial setup phase is easy...For beginners, it is fairly easy to learn."
"PyTorch allows me to build my projects from scratch."
"I like PyTorch's scalability."
"Its interface is the most valuable. The ability to have an interface to train machine learning models and construct them with the high-level interface, without excess busting and reconstructing the same technical elements, is very useful."
"The product's initial setup phase is easy."
"It's been pretty scalable in terms of using multiple GPUs."
"I like that PyTorch actually follows the pythonic way, and I feel that it's quite easy. It's easy to find compared to others who require us to type a long paragraph of code."
"yTorch is gaining credibility in the research space, it's becoming easier to find examples of papers that use PyTorch. This is an advantage for someone who uses PyTorch primarily."
 

Cons

"The concept of Caffe is a little bit complex because it was developed and based in C++. They need to make it easier for a new developer, data scientist, or a new machine or deep learning engineer to understand it."
"The analyzing and latency of compiling could be improved to provide enhanced results."
"The training of the models could be faster."
"I would like to see better learning documents."
"On the production side of things, having more frameworks would be helpful."
"The product has certain shortcomings in the automation of machine learning."
"There is not enough documentation about some methods and parameters. It is sometimes difficult to find information."
"I would like a model to be available. I think Google recently released a new version of EfficientNet. It's a really good classifier, and a PyTorch implementation would be nice."
"I do not have any complaints."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The solution is affordable."
"It is free."
"PyTorch is open source."
"PyTorch is an open-source solution."
"PyTorch is open-sourced."
"It is free."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
24%
University
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Educational Organization
8%
 

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Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise4
 

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I haven't gone for a paid plan yet. I've just been using the free trial or open-source version.
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PyTorch needs improvement in working on ARM-based chips. Although they have unified memory for GPU and RAM, they are unable to utilize these GPUs for processing efficiently. They take so much time....
 

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