- #309 STORM & Co-STORM now accept language models that are supported by LiteLLM
- #236 Serper retriever bug fix
- #198 Add Azure AI search
STORM by Stanford OVAL
Pulse Score
14 / 100
Rank #199 of 258
Downloads, last 7 days
329
up 21.0% vs previous week
Downloads, last 30 days
1,498
down 50.5% vs previous 30 days
GitHub stars
31.6K
about +9 a day
Latest release
1.1.0
20mo ago
Price
Free (OSS)
checked Oct 6, 2026
Overview
An open-source system from Stanford that researches a topic through web search and multi-perspective question asking, then writes a full-length, Wikipedia-style report with citations.
STORM was downloaded 329 times from PyPI in the week ending Oct 4, 2026, up 21.0% on the week before and down 50.5% over the last 30 days compared with the 30 before. The GitHub repository has 31.6K stars, 413 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 1.1.0, published Jan 23, 2025.
STORM usage and attention over time
Download the raw daily series: storm.csv
Install STORM
| PyPI | pip install knowledge-storm |
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These commands use the packages tracked on this page. The vendor may recommend a different installer; see the official documentation.
Key facts
| Maker | Stanford OVAL |
|---|---|
| Type | Open-source research and report-writing agent |
| First released | 2024 |
| License | MIT |
| Main language | Python |
| Open issues and PRs | 111 |
Pricing
Free open-source library plus a free research demo site; self-hosting users pay their own model and search costs.
Source: official pricing page, checked Oct 6, 2026. Prices change often; confirm before you buy.
Pulse Score breakdown
Adoption0
Community62
Attention—
Momentum0
Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.
STORM news and signals
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What changed: recent STORM releases
- [2024/09] Co-STORM is now live and fully integrated into the knowledge-storm Python package. Try it out by upgrading the package today!
- [2024/09] Our paper on Co-STORM has been accepted to EMNLP 2024! You can read it here.
- Co-STORM is now integrated into the knowledge-storm package. Check out the API documentation for more details.
- We introduce the Agent interface in Co-STORM, providing a unified framework for defining different LM agent policies for information seeking and knowledge curation. You can explore this interface…
- Co-STORM LLM Experts: These agents ground their responses in external knowledge sources and ask follow-up questions based on the discourse.
- Moderator Agent: Guides the conversation by generating insightful questions, drawing attention to discovered but underexplored areas.
- GoogleModel (#105)
- DeepSeekModel (#84)
- SerperRM (#102)
- BraveRM (#134)
- Improve VectorRM by decoupling the vector store construction from the retriever class (#126).
- You can now install storm via pip install knowledge-storm. (#80)
- We update the README.md to explain our current API.
- If you prefer using the source code, note that pulling the new release will lead to breaking change as we rename src/ to knowledgestorm/.
- Add VectorRM to support grounding on user-provided documents, complementing existing support of search engines (YouRM, BingSearch). (#58)
- We provide an example script here and detailed instructions here.
- We release a new UI for users to directly interact with STORM, available at This update brings improved stability and a new feature of discovering popular topics. (Thanks dekunma from Yale for the…
- We release demo light for developers, a minimal user interface built with streamlit framework in Python, handy for local development and demo hosting (#54)
- In-person talk in San Francisco: Our team member will give an invited talk at Wikipedians Meetup @ San Francisco on July 11. Come to chat with us in person!
- Upcoming major update: A major update supporting human-AI collaboration mode will be released over the summer. Stay tuned!
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STORM FAQ
How much does STORM cost?
Free open-source library plus a free research demo site; self-hosting users pay their own model and search costs.
Is STORM open source?
Yes. STORM is open source, released under the MIT license.
How popular is STORM?
STORM was downloaded 329 times from PyPI in the week ending Oct 4, 2026, up 21.0% on the week before and down 50.5% over the last 30 days compared with the 30 before. The GitHub repository has 31.6K stars, 413 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 1.1.0, published Jan 23, 2025.
What is the latest version of STORM?
The latest stable release we track is 1.1.0, published on Jan 23, 2025.
What are the alternatives to STORM?
The closest alternatives in the same category by Pulse Score are Consensus, BettaFish, SciSpace Agent, Elicit.
Where these numbers come from
PyPI: knowledge-storm. GitHub: stanford-oval/storm. See data sources for how each one is collected.
Product facts and pricing were checked against: github.com, storm.genie.stanford.edu.