Mako
High-performance Python templating engine with flexible syntax for generating HTML, emails and other text.
Used in agent projects
22
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in markdown, editors and content
#44 of 46
by use in those projects
Downloads
47.9M
PyPI, last 7 days, mako
GitHub stars
461
last push Sep 22, 2026
How Mako is used
Mako is a dependency in 22 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #44 of 46 in markdown, editors and content. The most used alternative there is react-markdown. Projects that use it most often also use Click (90.9%), Alembic (86.4%), python-dotenv (86.4%).
Often used with Mako
| Click | 90.9% of Mako projects · 51.8× more than average |
|---|---|
| Alembic | 86.4% of Mako projects · 95.4× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 86.4% of Mako projects · 13.2× more than average |
| SQLAlchemy | 86.4% of Mako projects · 43.9× more than average |
| MarkupSafe | 81.8% of Mako projects · 114.2× more than average |
| Requests | 81.8% of Mako projects · 15.4× more than average |
| urllib3 | 81.8% of Mako projects · 53.8× more than average |
| AnyIO | 77.3% of Mako projects · 52.7× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Mako as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install mako |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (21), Next.js (1) |
| Example projects | pipedude/evi-run, everlastingsong/whirlpool-essentials, leonardsellem/readwise-vector-db, nihilistau/CosySim |
Alternatives to Mako
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| react-markdown npm React component for rendering markdown with customizable component handling. |
360 (2.8%) | 37.2M | 15.9K | MIT |
| remark-gfm npm Remark plugin adding GitHub Flavored Markdown support for tables and strikethrough. |
288 (2.3%) | 44.5M | 1,249 | MIT |
| Jinja2 pypi Fast and expressive template engine for Python with powerful flexibility. |
175 (1.4%) | 145M | 11.8K | — |
| Marked npm Fast, efficient markdown parser for converting markdown to HTML. |
148 (1.2%) | 83.8M | 37.2K | MIT |
| React Syntax Highlighter npm React component for syntax highlighting code with Prism.js or Highlight.js. |
110 (0.9%) | 7.8M | 4,674 | MIT |
| gray-matter npm Parser extracting YAML/JSON front matter from markdown and text files. |
106 (0.8%) | 10.6M | 4,490 | MIT |
| Tiptap npm Headless Vue/React rich text editor framework with customizable extensions. |
105 (0.8%) | 18.7M | 38.7K | MIT |
| Pygments pypi Syntax highlighting library for code in Python supporting hundreds of programming languages. |
97 (0.8%) | 239M | 2,213 | — |