Used in agent projects
24
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in testing
#33 of 40
by use in those projects
Downloads
16.1M
PyPI, last 7 days, faker
GitHub stars
19.4K
last push Oct 9, 2026
How Faker is used
Faker is a dependency in 24 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #33 of 40 in testing. The most used alternative there is Vitest. Projects that use it most often also use Pydantic (75.0%), SQLAlchemy (66.7%), python-dotenv (62.5%).
Often used with Faker
| Pydantic | 75.0% of Faker projects · 14.7× more than average |
|---|---|
| SQLAlchemy | 66.7% of Faker projects · 33.9× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 62.5% of Faker projects · 9.6× more than average |
| Uvicorn | 50.0% of Faker projects · 11.7× more than average |
| FastAPI | 45.8% of Faker projects · 10.8× more than average |
| PyYAML | 45.8% of Faker projects · 15.1× more than average |
| aiohttp | 41.7% of Faker projects · 17.9× more than average |
| cryptography | 37.5% of Faker projects · 22.4× more than average |
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Faker as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install faker |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (24) |
| Example projects | micheltlutz/dev-challenge, saniksin/sahara, fgarofalo56/Supercharge_Microsoft_Fabric |
Alternatives to Faker
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vitest npm Next-generation testing framework powered by Vite with native ESM. |
1,549 (12.2%) | 123M | 17.2K | MIT |
| Playwright (JavaScript) npm Cross-browser automation library for end-to-end testing. |
1,117 (8.8%) | 74.2M | 97.4K | Apache-2.0 |
| Testing Library npm Testing utilities for React encouraging testing user behavior. |
915 (7.2%) | 68.7M | 19.7K | MIT |
| Jest npm Delightful JavaScript testing framework with minimal configuration. |
702 (5.5%) | 46.3M | 45.6K | MIT |
| jsdom npm JavaScript implementation of web standards for testing DOM interactions. |
681 (5.4%) | 112M | 21.7K | MIT |
| pytest pypi Simple, powerful Python testing framework with fixtures and plugins. |
330 (2.6%) | 196M | 14.6K | — |
| Chai npm BDD/TDD assertion library for Node.js and browsers with expressive syntax. |
305 (2.4%) | 14M | 8,265 | MIT |
| Mocha npm Feature-rich JavaScript test framework for Node.js and browsers. |
281 (2.2%) | 12.6M | 22.9K | MIT |