Bokeh
Create interactive plots and applications in the browser from Python code.
Charts and data visualisation PyPI BSD-3-Clause
How Bokeh is used
Bokeh is a dependency in 3 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 93 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is Plotly (57 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Matplotlib (92.5%), NumPy (92.5%), Jinja2 (90.3%).
Bokeh popularity over time
Gid Score 60: downloads 68, use in agent projects 50, GitHub stars 62, downloads trend 54 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Bokeh
| Matplotlib | 92.5% of Bokeh projects · 34.4× more than average |
|---|---|
| NumPy | 92.5% of Bokeh projects · 15.9× more than average |
| Jinja2 | 90.3% of Bokeh projects · 41.5× more than average |
| pandas | 90.3% of Bokeh projects · 21.0× more than average |
| Click | 88.2% of Bokeh projects · 35.3× more than average |
| IPykernel | 88.2% of Bokeh projects · 121.6× more than average |
| joblib | 88.2% of Bokeh projects · 124.4× more than average |
| MarkupSafe | 88.2% of Bokeh projects · 119.0× more than average |
From all 93 projects in our scan that use Bokeh, including the dependency samples.
How Bokeh is funded
Open Collective: Bokeh
| Received, last 12 months | $2,248 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $1,944 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $10,033 |
| Raised since the start | $53,968 · $43,935 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $128 · $255 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -27% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 2 |
Top company backers all time
| NumFOCUS | $20,066 since Nov 2023 |
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Apr 2022Sep 2026
Money by month. First money received in Apr 2022. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
Open Collective lists bokeh/bokeh as this collective's repository.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host NumFOCUS. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @bokeh | 1 current sponsor |
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GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay.
Ways to fund Bokeh
GitHub Sponsors Tidelift Own page
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install bokeh |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (93) |
| Example projects | BlackArbsCEO/Adv_Fin_ML_Exercises, rsanshierli/EasyBert, opengeos/geospatial, YvanYin/GoalFlow, Luffy03/Large-Scale-Medical |
Alternatives to Bokeh
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Bokeh are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plotly pypi Interactive data visualization library for Python with rich chart and dashboard support. |
72 | 57 (3.5%) | 13.3M | 18.8K | MIT |
| Altair pypi Declarative statistical visualization library for Python using Vega-Lite. |
67 | 7 (0.4%) | 9.7M | 10.5K | BSD |
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