How Kornia is used
Kornia joined the catalog on its public numbers (633,217 downloads a week on PyPI and 11,438 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 11 public GitHub projects of our scan, 0 of them set up for AI coding agents. Projects that use it most often also use Matplotlib (100.0%), Hugging Face Hub (90.9%), imageio (72.7%).
Kornia popularity over time
Gid Score 47: downloads 60, use in agent projects 19, GitHub stars 52, downloads trend 55 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Kornia
| Matplotlib | 100.0% of Kornia projects · 37.2× more than average |
|---|---|
| Hugging Face Hub | 90.9% of Kornia projects · 99.0× more than average |
| imageio | 72.7% of Kornia projects · 752.5× more than average |
| OpenCV Python | 72.7% of Kornia projects · 100.3× more than average |
| Boto3 | 63.6% of Kornia projects · 65.8× more than average |
| fsspec | 63.6% of Kornia projects · 141.1× more than average |
How Kornia is funded
Open Collective: kornia
| Received, last 12 months | $2,096 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $2,344 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $2,231 |
| Raised since the start | $3,209 · $978 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $10 · $10 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | +1650% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 3 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in May 2021. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @kornia | 0 current sponsors |
|---|---|
| @edgarriba | 0 current sponsors |
| @shijianjian | 0 current sponsors |
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 Kornia
GitHub Sponsors GitHub Sponsors GitHub Sponsors Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install kornia |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (11) |
| Example projects | filliptm/ComfyUI_Fill-Nodes, YvanYin/GoalFlow, jaidevshriram/realmdreamer, NyckM/Bruxos-do-VFX-Nodes |
Alternatives to Kornia
In our scan, none of the most used tools in ML and data science does the same job as Kornia: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
More in ML and data science: NumPy pandas scikit-learn SciPy PyTorch Sentence Transformers Hugging Face Transformers NetworkX