aiogram
Asynchronous framework for building Telegram bots with modern async/await patterns.
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How aiogram is used
aiogram is a dependency in 8 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 54 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is python-telegram-bot (34 projects). Projects that use it most often also use aiohttp (72.2%), python-dotenv (63.0%), Pydantic (61.1%).
aiogram popularity over time
Gid Score 50: downloads 61, use in agent projects 42, GitHub stars 41, downloads trend 56 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with aiogram
| aiohttp | 72.2% of aiogram projects · 35.0× more than average |
|---|---|
| python-dotenv | 63.0% of aiogram projects · 6.9× more than average |
| Pydantic | 61.1% of aiogram projects · 7.1× more than average |
| Requests | 59.3% of aiogram projects · 8.7× more than average |
| cryptography | 55.6% of aiogram projects · 23.6× more than average |
| APScheduler | 53.7% of aiogram projects · 70.9× more than average |
| SQLAlchemy | 51.9% of aiogram projects · 18.0× more than average |
| aiofiles | 51.9% of aiogram projects · 38.8× more than average |
From all 54 projects in our scan that use aiogram, including the dependency samples.
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
|---|
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list aiogram as a dependency.
How aiogram is funded
Open Collective: aiogram
| Received, last 12 months | $127 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $150 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $238 |
| Raised since the start | $1,018 · $781 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $0 · $0 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | +647% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 1 |
Top company backers all time, 6 companies in total
| Pedro | $180 since Jan 2021 |
|---|---|
| True Mafia | $125 since Nov 2019 |
| Speak With Me | $30 since Nov 2021 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in May 2019. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
Ways to fund aiogram
Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Project kits that use aiogram
Telegram news bot: RSS feeds to a daily digest (telegram library). A kit is a tested recipe with an AGENTS.md your coding agent builds from, with exact versions and licenses.
Install
| Package | pip install aiogram |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (54) |
| Example projects | fikstt2/hh-ai-agent, pipedude/evi-run, elophanto/EloPhanto, leionion/solana-bot-bump, maddness/vkusvill-mcp-bot |
Alternatives to aiogram
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside aiogram are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| python-telegram-bot pypi Python wrapper library for building Telegram bots with the Telegram Bot API. |
64 | 34 (2.1%) | 1.9M | 29.5K | LGPL-3.0-only |
| discord.py pypi Python wrapper for the Discord API to build bots and integrations. |
59 | 19 (1.2%) | 1.4M | 16.2K | MIT |
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