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Caffe vs PyTorch comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Caffe
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
22nd
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
8th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the AI Development Platforms category, the mindshare of Caffe is 0.2%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PyTorch is 1.5%, down from 2.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

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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.
Karthikeyan Katkam - PeerSpot reviewer
Better at converting actual text data to visual data than its competitors
I like PyTorch's scalability. I can use a very large scale of models that I can easily train in. OpenCV is also there, however, compared to OpenCV, PyTorch is better for converting actual text data to visual data. I'm actually developing my own tool for the application that I'm building for myself. It's a crypto exchange.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

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."
"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."
"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."
"The framework of the solution is valuable."
"We use PyTorch libraries, which are working well. It's very easy."
"It's been pretty scalable in terms of using multiple GPUs."
"PyTorch allows me to build my projects from scratch."
 

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 training of the models could be faster."
"There is not enough documentation about some methods and parameters. It is sometimes difficult to find information."
"I've had issues with stability when I use a lot of data and try out different combinations of modeling techniques."
"The product has breakdowns when we change the versions a lot."
"PyTorch could make certain things more obvious. Even though it does make things like defining loss functions and calculating gradients in backward propagation clear, these concepts may confuse beginners. We find that it's kind of problematic. Despite having methods called on loss functions during backward passes, the oral documentation for beginners is quite complex."
"The analyzing and latency of compiling could be improved to provide enhanced results."
"We faced an issue with PyTorch due to version incompatibility. PyTorch has no latest version after v12.3."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It is free."
"PyTorch is an open-source solution."
"PyTorch is open-sourced."
"The solution is affordable."
"It is free."
"PyTorch is open source."
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Manufacturing Company
30%
Computer Software Company
11%
Healthcare Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

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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.
What needs improvement with PyTorch?
The analyzing and latency of compiling could be improved to provide enhanced results.
 

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