Tier 5 Fully open / reproducible
What the publisher claims: open source
The one-liner: AutoML with the search space exposed rather than hidden behind a service.
The six questions
Source and packages are downloadable.
Apache 2.0.
Runs locally on commodity hardware and in containers.
Presets, search spaces and stacking logic are public and configurable, and user data stays with the user.
The pipeline is inspectable end to end and can be rebuilt from the published code.
AutoGluon is run in the open by a standing group of non-AWS maintainers who merge outside PRs and work a published issue roadmap across tabular, multimodal, and time-series tracks, so community contributors genuinely steer what ships.
License
Apache 2.0 OSI-approved — license source ↗
- Some bundled foundation-model backbones carry their own terms
What is actually released
- library source
- presets and search configuration
- documentation
- papers
Why it matters
The contrast with proprietary AutoML services is that the automation stays auditable and forkable.
Sources
Derived from the openness dataset behind But Is It Open? — snapshot 2026-11-07 ↗. Scores are qualitative readings of the cited evidence, not verdicts; tier measures openness, not intelligence.