LangGraph Checkpoint
Base interfaces for LangGraph checkpoint savers to persist agent state.
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How LangGraph Checkpoint is used
LangGraph Checkpoint is a dependency in 9 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 237 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is Pydantic AI (16 projects). Projects that use it most often also use LangGraph (100.0%), LangChain (99.2%), Pydantic (95.4%).
LangGraph Checkpoint popularity over time
Gid Score 73: downloads 87, use in agent projects 63, GitHub stars 75, downloads trend 57 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with LangGraph Checkpoint
| LangGraph | 100.0% of LangGraph Checkpoint projects · 81.7× more than average |
|---|---|
| LangChain | 99.2% of LangGraph Checkpoint projects · 48.9× more than average |
| Pydantic | 95.4% of LangGraph Checkpoint projects · 11.0× more than average |
| LangSmith | 94.5% of LangGraph Checkpoint projects · 293.4× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 92.8% of LangGraph Checkpoint projects · 10.1× more than average |
| OpenAI Python Library | 92.4% of LangGraph Checkpoint projects · 23.4× more than average |
| LangGraph SDK | 91.1% of LangGraph Checkpoint projects · 628.7× more than average |
| orjson | 91.1% of LangGraph Checkpoint projects · 152.9× more than average |
From all 237 projects in our scan that use LangGraph Checkpoint, including the dependency samples.
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
|---|
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list LangGraph Checkpoint as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install langgraph-checkpoint |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (235), Next.js (2) |
| Example projects | assafelovic/gpt-researcher, apconw/Aix-DB, William-Lu-stack/Flawless, Decade-qiu/CookHero, YuhangChen1/Paper2All |
Alternatives to LangGraph Checkpoint
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside LangGraph Checkpoint are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pydantic AI pypi AI agent framework built with Pydantic for structured, typed agent development. |
62 | 16 (1.0%) | 1.5M | 20.7K | MIT |
| LangGraph SDK pypi SDK for interacting with LangGraph API to build and run agent workflows. |
73 | 9 (0.6%) | 12.2M | 43.6K | MIT |
| smolagents pypi Barebones library for building agents that write Python code to call tools. |
46 | 5 (0.3%) | 113K | — | — |
| Semantic Kernel pypi Microsoft SDK for integrating LLMs with traditional code for AI applications. |
51 | 3 (0.2%) | 73.1K | 28.7K | MIT |
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