What is the difference between EasyLLM and Langchain?

[Mehrdad Esmaeili]

In the readme it was mentioned that both open source and closed source LLMs can be used with EasyLLM. Langchain seems to provide that as well. What differences does EasyLLM have with Langchain?

[Philipp Schmid]

Hey @mehrdad-es,

easyllm is a more low-level, less complex, abstracted way of working with open LLMs and now bedrock. I built it to make testing and building PoC on my side easier and thought i'd be interesting to share with the community. The my idea was if you have a "openAI" pipeline, not using langchain you can easily switch to easyllm by simply changing some imports.
That helps me especially when evaluating and trying different models, where i want to be able to jump to the definition and understand what code is executed.

[Mehrdad Esmaeili]

Thanks @philschmid, I'll start reading the code.