gRPC
High-performance RPC framework using HTTP/2 with language interoperability.
Used in agent projects
43
0.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in http clients and networking
#20 of 29
by use in those projects
Downloads
79.8M
PyPI, last 7 days, grpcio
GitHub stars
45.4K
last push Oct 10, 2026
How gRPC is used
gRPC is a dependency in 43 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.3%), #20 of 29 in http clients and networking. The most used alternative there is Axios. Projects that use it most often also use Protocol Buffers (93.0%), Requests (88.4%), websockets (74.4%).
Often used with gRPC
| Protocol Buffers | 93.0% of gRPC projects · 157.5× more than average |
|---|---|
| Requests | 88.4% of gRPC projects · 16.6× more than average |
| websockets | 74.4% of gRPC projects · 33.0× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 72.1% of gRPC projects · 11.1× more than average |
| Click | 67.4% of gRPC projects · 38.4× more than average |
| charset-normalizer | 65.1% of gRPC projects · 52.3× more than average |
| packaging | 65.1% of gRPC projects · 57.4× more than average |
| urllib3 | 65.1% of gRPC projects · 42.8× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list gRPC as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install grpcio |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (39), Next.js (3), Other (1) |
| Example projects | kr8tiv-ai/Jarvis, touyi/solana-onchain-arbitrage-bot-contract, ManojINaik/manimAnimationAgent, nihilistau/CosySim, brandoz2255/Harvis |
Alternatives to gRPC
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Axios npm Promise-based HTTP client for browser and Node.js with interceptors. |
1,264 (10.0%) | 115M | 109K | MIT |
| Requests pypi Elegant Python HTTP library for making web requests. |
675 (5.3%) | 309M | 54.6K | Apache-2.0 |
| aiohttp pypi Async HTTP client/server framework for Python with WebSocket support. |
295 (2.3%) | 117M | 16.6K | — |
| ws npm Simple, fast WebSocket client and server for Node.js with full RFC support. |
287 (2.3%) | 283M | 22.8K | MIT |
| websockets pypi WebSocket implementation for Python with RFC 6455 and 7692 compliance. |
286 (2.3%) | 109M | 5,732 | — |
| httpx pypi Modern Python HTTP client with async support, replacing the standard requests library. |
266 (2.1%) | 16M | 15.6K | BSD-3-Clause |
| node-fetch npm Bring the Fetch API to Node.js for making HTTP requests. |
219 (1.7%) | 207M | 8,852 | MIT |
| urllib3 pypi HTTP client with thread-safe connection pooling, file uploads and advanced features. |
193 (1.5%) | 338M | 4,071 | — |