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fakeredis

In-memory fake of the Redis API for Python tests.

Testing PyPI BSD-3-Clause

Used in agent projects
4
0.2% of 1,622 Python repos built with AI coding agents; 49 counting our dependency samples
Gid Score
49 /100
#1651 of 3,794 tools, #42 in testing · ranking
Rank in testing
#67 of 105
by use in those projects
Downloads
9.8M
PyPI, last 7 days, fakeredis
GitHub stars
465
91 forks · last push Oct 19, 2026

How fakeredis is used

fakeredis is a dependency in 4 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 49 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. Projects that use it most often also use redis (Python) (93.9%), Requests (71.4%), jsonschema (63.3%).

fakeredis popularity over time

Top tools by Gid Score

fakeredis: downloads per weekPyPI, fakeredis 9,685,971
fakeredis: GitHub starscunla/fakeredis-py 465

Gid Score 49: downloads 85, use in agent projects 40, GitHub stars 0, downloads trend 59 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.

Often used with fakeredis

redis (Python)93.9% of fakeredis projects · 47.0× more than average
Requests71.4% of fakeredis projects · 10.5× more than average
jsonschema63.3% of fakeredis projects · 38.9× more than average
NumPy59.2% of fakeredis projects · 10.1× more than average
tqdm59.2% of fakeredis projects · 33.7× more than average
python-dateutil57.1% of fakeredis projects · 34.8× more than average
Pydantic55.1% of fakeredis projects · 6.4× more than average
python-dotenv55.1% of fakeredis projects · 6.0× more than average

From all 49 projects in our scan that use fakeredis, including the dependency samples.

How fakeredis is funded

Most funded tools

GitHub Sponsors

@cunla1 current sponsor

GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay. Sponsors of a person back all of their work.

Ways to fund fakeredis

GitHub Sponsors Tidelift

As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.

Install

Packagepip install fakeredis
Main stacksPython (48), Next.js (1)
Example projectsZJU-REAL/HugAgentOS, digitranslab/allama, OpenDataBox/MemoryData, newsettle/ns4_chatbot, Flex-lang/transpiler

Alternatives to fakeredis

All testing

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

More in Testing: Vitest Playwright (JavaScript) Testing Library jsdom Jest pytest Happy DOM axe-core Playwright

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