Google Genkit
AI framework for building, testing and monitoring generative AI applications.
Agent, MCP and tool libraries npm Apache-2.0
How Google Genkit is used
Google Genkit is a dependency in 12 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 29 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is LangChain.js (37 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Genkit Google AI (79.3%), Class Variance Authority (75.9%), Next.js (75.9%).
Google Genkit popularity over time
Gid Score 42: downloads 45, use in agent projects 33, GitHub stars 43, downloads trend 47 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Google Genkit
| Genkit Google AI | 79.3% of Google Genkit projects · 547.1× more than average |
|---|---|
| Class Variance Authority | 75.9% of Google Genkit projects · 4.6× more than average |
| Next.js | 75.9% of Google Genkit projects · 4.2× more than average |
| Tailwind Merge | 75.9% of Google Genkit projects · 4.0× more than average |
| clsx | 75.9% of Google Genkit projects · 3.9× more than average |
| Firebase | 72.4% of Google Genkit projects · 45.9× more than average |
| Lucide React | 75.9% of Google Genkit projects · 3.8× more than average |
| date-fns | 69.0% of Google Genkit projects · 6.6× more than average |
From all 29 projects in our scan that use Google Genkit, including the dependency samples.
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
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Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Google Genkit as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install genkit |
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| Main stacks | Next.js (22), TypeScript / JavaScript (4), Flutter (2), Python (1) |
| Example projects | flowshapr/genkitx-langfuse |
Alternatives to Google Genkit
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Google Genkit are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LangChain.js npm Build applications with LLMs using composable abstractions for chains, agents and memory. |
70 | 37 (0.8%) | 3.6M | 18.3K | MIT |
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