How aiomysql is used
aiomysql is a dependency in 2 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 21 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is PyMySQL (21 projects). Projects that use it most often also use python-dotenv (90.5%), Pydantic (81.0%), FastAPI (76.2%).
aiomysql popularity over time
Gid Score 45: downloads 72, use in agent projects 28, GitHub stars 22, downloads trend 49 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with aiomysql
| python-dotenv | 90.5% of aiomysql projects · 9.9× more than average |
|---|---|
| Pydantic | 81.0% of aiomysql projects · 9.4× more than average |
| FastAPI | 76.2% of aiomysql projects · 10.2× more than average |
| cryptography | 71.4% of aiomysql projects · 30.4× more than average |
| aiohttp | 66.7% of aiomysql projects · 32.3× more than average |
| python-multipart | 66.7% of aiomysql projects · 22.3× more than average |
| OpenAI Python Library | 61.9% of aiomysql projects · 15.7× more than average |
| aiosqlite | 57.1% of aiomysql projects · 61.2× more than average |
From all 21 projects in our scan that use aiomysql, including the dependency samples.
How aiomysql 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, aiobotocore, aiohttp-cors, aiokafka.
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 aiomysql
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 aiomysql |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (21) |
| Example projects | RandyChen1985/nanzi-ai-agent-platform, camel-ai/seta, trpc-group/trpc-agent-python, CloudChef/atlasclaw, XargonWan/Synthetic_Heart |
Alternatives to aiomysql
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside aiomysql are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PyMySQL pypi Pure Python MySQL database driver for database operations. |
64 | 21 (1.3%) | 18.2M | 7,855 | MIT |
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