How arq is used
arq joined the catalog on its public numbers (1,081,668 downloads a week on PyPI and 3,018 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 13 public GitHub projects of our scan, 4 of them set up for AI coding agents. The most used alternative in our scan is Celery (36 projects). Projects that use it most often also use FastAPI (100.0%), Uvicorn (100.0%), Pydantic (84.6%).
arq popularity over time
Gid Score 44: downloads 65, use in agent projects 21, GitHub stars 30, downloads trend 57 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with arq
| FastAPI | 100.0% of arq projects · 13.4× more than average |
|---|---|
| Uvicorn | 100.0% of arq projects · 13.1× more than average |
| Pydantic | 84.6% of arq projects · 9.8× more than average |
| redis (Python) | 84.6% of arq projects · 42.4× more than average |
| pytest | 76.9% of arq projects · 18.7× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 76.9% of arq projects · 8.4× more than average |
| Pydantic Settings | 76.9% of arq projects · 22.0× more than average |
| SQLAlchemy | 76.9% of arq projects · 26.7× more than average |
How arq is funded
GitHub Sponsors
| @samuelcolvin | 25 current sponsors |
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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 Pydantic, Pydantic Settings, jiter.
Ways to fund arq
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install arq |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (13) |
| Example projects | jerry609/PaperBot, GramosoftAI/GSearchAI, EpistasisLab/ASAREE |
Alternatives to arq
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside arq are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celery pypi Distributed task queue for Python executing jobs asynchronously across workers. |
69 | 36 (2.2%) | 11.5M | 29K | BSD-3-Clause |
More in Jobs, queues and workflows: APScheduler Croner node-cron BullMQ croniter Inngest schedule p-queue