How aiokafka is used
aiokafka joined the catalog on its public numbers (2,854,005 downloads a week on PyPI and 1,405 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 8 public GitHub projects of our scan, 1 of them set up for AI coding agents. The most used alternative in our scan is confluent-kafka-python (3 projects). Projects that use it most often also use FastAPI (100.0%), Uvicorn (87.5%), redis (Python) (75.0%).
aiokafka popularity over time
Gid Score 39: downloads 74, use in agent projects 14, GitHub stars 17, downloads trend 38 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with aiokafka
| FastAPI | 100.0% of aiokafka projects · 13.4× more than average |
|---|---|
| Uvicorn | 87.5% of aiokafka projects · 11.4× more than average |
| redis (Python) | 75.0% of aiokafka projects · 37.5× more than average |
| Pydantic Settings | 75.0% of aiokafka projects · 21.5× more than average |
| pandas | 62.5% of aiokafka projects · 14.5× more than average |
| psycopg2 | 62.5% of aiokafka projects · 39.6× more than average |
| Pydantic | 62.5% of aiokafka projects · 7.2× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 62.5% of aiokafka projects · 6.8× more than average |
How aiokafka is funded
Open Collective: aio-libs: aiohttp and ecosystem
| Received, last 12 months | $72,961 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | €67,005 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $72,978 |
| Raised since the start | $127,698 · $54,720 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $355 |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 4 |
Top company backers all time
| Admin OCEU | €46,100 since Mar 2025 |
|---|---|
| Open Home Foundation | €16,000 since Feb 2025 |
| dmTECH | €1,100 since Dec 2025 |
Feb 2025Sep 2026
Money by month. First money received in Feb 2025. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 5 more tools in our catalog: yarl, aiodns, aiomysql, aiobotocore, aiohttp-cors.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Collective Europe Foundation (EUR). Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @aio-libs | 6 current sponsors |
|---|---|
| @webknjaz | 12 current sponsors |
| @Dreamsorcerer | 1 current sponsor |
GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay. Sponsors of a person back all of their work, which here includes aiohttp, yarl, aiodns.
Ways to fund aiokafka
GitHub Sponsors GitHub Sponsors GitHub Sponsors Open Collective Tidelift Own page
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install aiokafka |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (8) |
| Example projects | Mirix-AI/MIRIX, bingal/fastdomaincheck-mcp-server-python |
Alternatives to aiokafka
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside aiokafka are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| confluent-kafka-python pypi · new in the catalog Confluent's Python client for Apache Kafka. |
46 | 3 (0.2%) | 10.3M | 521 | Apache-2.0 |
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