CairoSVG
Converts SVG to PNG, PDF and PostScript using Cairo.
Files, images and media PyPI LGPL-3.0-or-later Images
How CairoSVG is used
CairoSVG is a dependency in 0 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 23 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. Projects that use it most often also use NumPy (87.0%), Pillow (87.0%), Click (69.6%).
CairoSVG popularity over time
Gid Score 47: downloads 77, use in agent projects 30, GitHub stars 11, downloads trend 64 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with CairoSVG
| NumPy | 87.0% of CairoSVG projects · 14.9× more than average |
|---|---|
| Pillow | 87.0% of CairoSVG projects · 22.7× more than average |
| Click | 69.6% of CairoSVG projects · 27.9× more than average |
| cachetools | 65.2% of CairoSVG projects · 115.7× more than average |
| charset-normalizer | 65.2% of CairoSVG projects · 60.4× more than average |
| OpenAI Python Library | 65.2% of CairoSVG projects · 16.5× more than average |
| pandas | 65.2% of CairoSVG projects · 15.2× more than average |
From all 23 projects in our scan that use CairoSVG, including the dependency samples.
How CairoSVG is funded
Open Collective: CourtBouillon
| Received, last 12 months | $9,942 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | €11,499 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $4,024 |
| Raised since the start | $62,071 · $58,047 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $766 · $863 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -23% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 26 |
Top company backers all time, 25 companies in total
| Spacinov | €14,800 since Jan 2022 |
|---|---|
| Kobalt | €5,563 since Feb 2022 |
| Grip Angebotssoftware | €3,380 since Apr 2021 |
| Simonsoft | €2,160 since Oct 2020 |
| Menutech | €2,040 since Nov 2020 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Oct 2020. 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: WeasyPrint, cssselect2, Pyphen, pydyf, tinyhtml5.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Europe. Source
Ways to fund CairoSVG
Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install cairosvg |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (23) |
| Example projects | Paper2Poster/Paper2Poster, VRSEN/OpenSwarm, TIGER-AI-Lab/TheoremExplainAgent, 7onez/cti-expert, YuhangChen1/Paper2All |
Alternatives to CairoSVG
In our scan, none of the most used tools in Files, images and media does the same job as CairoSVG: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
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