asyncclick
Async-enabled CLI framework compatible with Click API.
Dev workflow and config PyPI BSD-3-Clause
How asyncclick is used
asyncclick joined the catalog on its public numbers (299,775 downloads a week on PyPI and 171 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 9 public GitHub projects of our scan, 0 of them set up for AI coding agents. The most used alternative in our scan is Click (155 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Google GenAI Python SDK (88.9%), deprecated (77.8%), nest-asyncio (77.8%).
asyncclick popularity over time
Gid Score 30: downloads 53, use in agent projects 16, GitHub stars 0, downloads trend 50 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with asyncclick
| Google GenAI Python SDK | 88.9% of asyncclick projects · 54.1× more than average |
|---|---|
| deprecated | 77.8% of asyncclick projects · 438.9× more than average |
| nest-asyncio | 77.8% of asyncclick projects · 284.0× more than average |
| Google Agent Development Kit | 66.7% of asyncclick projects · 517.3× more than average |
| Google Cloud AI Platform | 66.7% of asyncclick projects · 376.2× more than average |
| Model Context Protocol SDK (Python) | 66.7% of asyncclick projects · 8.3× more than average |
| python-dateutil | 66.7% of asyncclick projects · 40.6× more than average |
| build | 55.6% of asyncclick projects · 344.9× more than average |
How asyncclick is funded
Open Collective: The Trio Collective
| Received, last 12 months | $4,657 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $5,183 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $12,227 |
| Raised since the start | $12,277 · $50 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $16 · $61 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | +41% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 2 |
Top company backers all time
| THANKS.DEV | $2,483 since May 2025 |
|---|---|
| BFM | $25 since Mar 2021 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Mar 2021. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 3 more tools in our catalog: outcome, Trio, trio-websocket.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @python-trio | 3 current sponsors |
|---|
GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay.
Ways to fund asyncclick
GitHub Sponsors Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install asyncclick |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (9) |
| Example projects | weimeilin79/instavibe-bootstrap, Azure-Samples/azure-ai-agents-playbook |
Alternatives to asyncclick
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside asyncclick are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Click pypi Python package for composing command-line interfaces with decorators. |
81 | 155 (9.6%) | 227M | 17.8K | BSD-3-Clause |
| Typer pypi Framework for building CLI applications using Python type hints. |
79 | 125 (7.7%) | 66M | 20.1K | MIT |
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