Used in agent projects
32
0.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in auth and security libraries
#33 of 47
by use in those projects
Downloads
16.4M
PyPI, last 7 days, argon2-cffi
GitHub stars
733
last push Oct 1, 2026
How argon2-cffi is used
argon2-cffi is a dependency in 32 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.3%), #33 of 47 in auth and security libraries. The most used alternative there is NextAuth.js. Projects that use it most often also use FastAPI (71.9%), Uvicorn (71.9%), Pydantic (68.8%).
Often used with argon2-cffi
| FastAPI | 71.9% of argon2-cffi projects · 17.0× more than average |
|---|---|
| Uvicorn | 71.9% of argon2-cffi projects · 16.8× more than average |
| Pydantic | 68.8% of argon2-cffi projects · 13.5× more than average |
| Pillow | 65.6% of argon2-cffi projects · 28.5× more than average |
| NumPy | 59.4% of argon2-cffi projects · 15.5× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 59.4% of argon2-cffi projects · 9.1× more than average |
| psutil | 56.2% of argon2-cffi projects · 49.6× more than average |
| Requests | 56.2% of argon2-cffi projects · 10.6× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.5% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 0.5% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.5% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list argon2-cffi as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install argon2-cffi |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (31), Next.js (1) |
| Example projects | Josh-XT/AGiXT, Consiliency/Code-Index-MCP, achingachris/django-starter, nihilistau/CosySim, brandoz2255/Harvis |
Alternatives to argon2-cffi
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NextAuth.js npm Complete open-source authentication solution designed for Next.js applications. |
266 (2.1%) | 6.7M | 28.4K | ISC |
| bcryptjs npm Pure JavaScript bcrypt implementation for secure password hashing without dependencies. |
256 (2.0%) | 14.7M | 3,797 | BSD-3-Clause |
| jsonwebtoken npm Create, verify and decode JSON Web Tokens for authentication and secure data transmission. |
241 (1.9%) | 59.3M | 18.2K | MIT |
| cryptography pypi Python library providing cryptographic recipes and primitives for secure applications. |
213 (1.7%) | 281M | 7,803 | — |
| jose npm Comprehensive JWT and JWK handling for Node.js and web runtimes. |
141 (1.1%) | 151M | 7,824 | MIT |
| PyJWT pypi Python library for encoding and decoding JSON Web Tokens. |
128 (1.0%) | 154M | 5,714 | — |
| Better Auth npm Comprehensive authentication framework for TypeScript with multiple strategies. |
126 (1.0%) | 11.4M | 30.2K | MIT |
| Helmet npm Express middleware that sets HTTP security headers to prevent vulnerabilities. |
125 (1.0%) | 16.2M | 10.7K | MIT |