11 products Sparkpulse tracks are shipping around stan. The highest-velocity stan products right now are rstantools, loo and posteriordb (ranked by Sparkpulse's velocity score). Their velocity scores span 0.0 to 2.5 out of 10, a spread that shows how unevenly shipping cadence is distributed across the field. Below: every tracked product carrying this theme, updated from release data. Everything on this page is regenerated from verified release data, so the ranking reflects the latest changelogs rather than a static list.
Products shipping around stan
#01rstantoolsThe scaffolding layer for Stan-backed R packages, maintained rather than extended.2.5alternatives →#02looloo keeps rewriting the diagnostics Bayesian modellers read off model comparison2.5alternatives →#03posteriordbA reference posterior database that hit 1.0 with a paper, and is now graded on the statistics it ships.0.0alternatives →#04cmdstanpyCmdStanPy is clearing deprecations ahead of a 2.0 it keeps announcing.0.0alternatives →#05RBesTRBesT is teaching its Bayesian decision rules to answer two-sided questions.0.0alternatives →#06bayestestRBayesian diagnostics get stricter defaults while the Stan backend list widens0.0alternatives →#07epinowcastepinowcast added Gaussian processes to its formula interface and made the sampler twice as fast0.0alternatives →#08rstanarmrstanarm is community-maintained now, tracking Stan and lme4 rather than adding models.0.0alternatives →#09mrbayesmrbayes spent 2026 auditing its own Bayesian MR estimators for coding errors.0.0alternatives →#10cmdstanrcmdstanr keeps adding fast approximations beside full HMC, and fighting Windows toolchains.0.0alternatives →#11bayesplotbayesplot keeps widening its posterior-check catalogue while absorbing each ggplot2 break.0.0alternatives →
Frequently asked questions about stan
Which SaaS tools ship stan in 2026?
rstantools, loo, posteriordb, cmdstanpy, RBesT, and 6 more — the stan products Sparkpulse tracks, ranked by shipping velocity from verified changelogs.
Which stan product has the highest shipping velocity?
rstantools, with the top velocity score (2.5/10) — Sparkpulse's velocity score is derived from verified release data.
How many products are shipping around stan?
Sparkpulse currently tracks 11 products carrying the stan theme, updated continuously from verified release data.