hvPlot
High-level interactive plotting for pandas, xarray and more.
Charts and data visualisation PyPI BSD
How hvPlot is used
hvPlot joined the catalog on its public numbers (90,022 downloads a week on PyPI and 1,358 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 17 public GitHub projects of our scan, 0 of them set up for AI coding agents. The most used alternative in our scan is Plotly (57 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Beautiful Soup (94.1%), Bokeh (94.1%), Matplotlib (94.1%).
hvPlot popularity over time
Gid Score 30: downloads 42, use in agent projects 25, GitHub stars 17, downloads trend 32 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with hvPlot
| Beautiful Soup | 94.1% of hvPlot projects · 43.6× more than average |
|---|---|
| Bokeh | 94.1% of hvPlot projects · 1947.6× more than average |
| Matplotlib | 94.1% of hvPlot projects · 35.0× more than average |
| NetworkX | 94.1% of hvPlot projects · 94.2× more than average |
| NumPy | 94.1% of hvPlot projects · 16.1× more than average |
| aiohttp | 88.2% of hvPlot projects · 42.8× more than average |
| AnyIO | 88.2% of hvPlot projects · 59.5× more than average |
| argon2-cffi | 88.2% of hvPlot projects · 228.2× more than average |
How hvPlot is funded
Open Collective: HoloViz
| Received, last 12 months | $259 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $259 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $517 |
| Raised since the start | $1,281 · $764 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $0 · $0 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | +4217% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 2 |
Top company backers all time
| NumFOCUS | $1,017 since Jun 2023 |
|---|---|
| THANKS.DEV | $259 since May 2026 |
Jun 2023Sep 2026
Money by month. First money received in Jun 2023. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 5 more tools in our catalog: HoloViews, Panel, Param, Colorcet, Datashader.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host NumFOCUS. Source
Ways to fund hvPlot
Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install hvplot |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (17) |
| Example projects | opengeos/geospatial, AI-Learning-Gems/AI-Learning-Gems.github.io, Zhou-CyberSecurity-AI/ATBA |
Alternatives to hvPlot
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside hvPlot are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plotly pypi Interactive data visualization library for Python with rich chart and dashboard support. |
72 | 57 (3.5%) | 13.3M | 18.8K | MIT |
| Altair pypi Declarative statistical visualization library for Python using Vega-Lite. |
67 | 7 (0.4%) | 9.7M | 10.5K | BSD |
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