Colorama
Cross-platform library for rendering colored terminal text in Python applications.
Utilities PyPI
Used in agent projects
119
0.9% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in utilities
#21 of 109
by use in those projects
Downloads
62.8M
PyPI, last 7 days, colorama
GitHub stars
3,795
last push May 13, 2026
How Colorama is used
Colorama is a dependency in 119 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.9%), #21 of 109 in utilities. The most used alternative there is clsx. Projects that use it most often also use Requests (75.6%), python-dotenv (63.9%), Pydantic (61.3%).
Often used with Colorama
| Requests | 75.6% of Colorama projects · 14.2× more than average |
|---|---|
| python-dotenv | 63.9% of Colorama projects · 9.8× more than average |
| Pydantic | 61.3% of Colorama projects · 12.0× more than average |
| NumPy | 56.3% of Colorama projects · 14.7× more than average |
| Click | 49.6% of Colorama projects · 28.2× more than average |
| urllib3 | 48.7% of Colorama projects · 32.1× more than average |
| solders | 48.7% of Colorama projects · 14.6× more than average |
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 1.3% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 1.0% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.7% of projects set up for it |
| OpenAI Codex | 1.1% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Colorama as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install colorama |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (117), Next.js (2) |
| Example projects | prompt-security/ps-fuzz, capture0x/AdStrike, twjackysu/TWSEMCPServer, pipedude/evi-run, microsoft/edge-ai |
Alternatives to Colorama
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| clsx npm Tiny utility for conditionally constructing className strings. |
2,251 (17.7%) | 126M | 9,847 | MIT |
| date-fns npm Modern JavaScript date utility library with comprehensive formatting functions. |
1,079 (8.5%) | 97.6M | 36.6K | MIT |
| uuid npm Generate RFC9562 compliant UUIDs for unique identifiers in applications. |
454 (3.6%) | 296M | 15.3K | MIT |
| PyYAML pypi YAML parser and emitter for reading and writing YAML configuration files. |
385 (3.0%) | 239M | 2,954 | MIT |
| Lodash npm Modular utility library with methods for common programming tasks and data manipulation. |
269 (2.1%) | 162M | 61.4K | MIT |
| bn.js npm Big number library for handling arbitrary-precision integers in JavaScript. |
217 (1.7%) | 62.1M | 1,230 | MIT |
| python-dateutil pypi Extensions to Python's datetime module for advanced date and time manipulation. |
165 (1.3%) | 233M | 2,638 | Dual License |
| yaml npm JavaScript YAML parser and stringifier with full spec compliance. |
164 (1.3%) | 179M | 1,693 | ISC |