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Agents tracked: 440 Downloads (7d): 202M down 19.5% GitHub stars: 10.4M Releases (7d): 607 Agent status: all upSince last limit reset: Claude 28d · Codex 0d Updated Oct 21, 2026

cloudpickle

Serialize Python objects including lambdas for distributed computing.

Utilities PyPI BSD

Used in agent projects
8
0.5% of 1,622 Python repos built with AI coding agents; 339 counting our dependency samples
Gid Score
67 /100
#361 of 3,794 tools, #38 in utilities · ranking
Rank in utilities
#129 of 361
by use in those projects
Downloads
49.4M
PyPI, last 7 days, cloudpickle
GitHub stars
1,947
212 forks · last push Sep 10, 2026

How cloudpickle is used

cloudpickle is a dependency in 8 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 339 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. Projects that use it most often also use attrs (92.9%), NumPy (92.3%), packaging (92.3%).

cloudpickle popularity over time

Top tools by Gid Score

cloudpickle: downloads per weekPyPI, cloudpickle 48,588,213
cloudpickle: GitHub starscloudpipe/cloudpickle 1,947

Gid Score 67: downloads 100, use in agent projects 68, GitHub stars 23, downloads trend 63 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.

Often used with cloudpickle

attrs92.9% of cloudpickle projects · 134.2× more than average
NumPy92.3% of cloudpickle projects · 15.8× more than average
packaging92.3% of cloudpickle projects · 63.0× more than average
jsonschema89.1% of cloudpickle projects · 54.8× more than average
Click88.8% of cloudpickle projects · 35.6× more than average
Requests88.8% of cloudpickle projects · 13.1× more than average
MarkupSafe86.7% of cloudpickle projects · 117.0× more than average
python-dateutil86.7% of cloudpickle projects · 52.8× more than average

From all 339 projects in our scan that use cloudpickle, including the dependency samples.

By coding agent

GitHub Copilot0.2% of projects set up for it

Share of public repos configured for each agent that list cloudpickle as a dependency.

Install

Packagepip install cloudpickle
Main stacksPython (338), Next.js (1)
Example projectsPaper2Poster/Paper2Poster, ANative-Lab/EvoAgentX, apconw/Aix-DB, BlackArbsCEO/Adv_Fin_ML_Exercises, FlagOpen/RoboBrain2.5

Alternatives to cloudpickle

All utilities

In our scan, none of the most used tools in Utilities does the same job as cloudpickle: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.

More in Utilities: clsx date-fns PyYAML uuid yaml js-yaml glob Lodash

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