How dill is used
dill is a dependency in 7 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 348 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. Projects that use it most often also use NumPy (95.1%), packaging (93.1%), attrs (92.5%).
dill popularity over time
Gid Score 64: downloads 97, use in agent projects 69, GitHub stars 26, downloads trend 45 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with dill
| NumPy | 95.1% of dill projects · 16.3× more than average |
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| packaging | 93.1% of dill projects · 63.5× more than average |
| attrs | 92.5% of dill projects · 133.6× more than average |
| pandas | 91.7% of dill projects · 21.3× more than average |
| Click | 91.4% of dill projects · 36.6× more than average |
| MarkupSafe | 89.9% of dill projects · 121.4× more than average |
| Pillow | 88.2% of dill projects · 23.0× more than average |
From all 348 projects in our scan that use dill, including the dependency samples.
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
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Share of public repos configured for each agent that list dill as a dependency.
How dill is funded
GitHub Sponsors
| @uqfoundation | 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 dill
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install dill |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (347), Next.js (1) |
| Example projects | Paper2Poster/Paper2Poster, apconw/Aix-DB, FlagOpen/RoboBrain2.5, GAIR-NLP/DeepResearcher, Decade-qiu/CookHero |
Alternatives to dill
In our scan, none of the most used tools in Utilities does the same job as dill: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
More in Utilities: clsx date-fns PyYAML uuid yaml js-yaml glob Lodash