Marked
Fast, efficient markdown parser for converting markdown to HTML.
Markdown, editors and content npm MIT
Used in agent projects
148
1.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in markdown, editors and content
#4 of 46
by use in those projects
Downloads
83.8M
npm, last 7 days, marked
GitHub stars
37.2K
last push Oct 9, 2026
How Marked is used
Marked is a dependency in 148 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (1.2%), #4 of 46 in markdown, editors and content. The most used alternative there is react-markdown. Projects that use it most often also use Zod (50.7%), Vitest (39.9%), TypeScript (85.8%).
Often used with Marked
| Zod | 50.7% of Marked projects · 3.0× more than average |
|---|---|
| Vitest | 39.9% of Marked projects · 3.3× more than average |
| TypeScript | 85.8% of Marked projects · 1.5× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS | 56.8% of Marked projects · 1.6× more than average |
| Playwright (JavaScript) | 28.4% of Marked projects · 3.2× more than average |
| ESLint | 54.1% of Marked projects |
| uuid | 18.2% of Marked projects · 5.1× more than average |
| react-markdown | 17.6% of Marked projects · 6.2× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 2.4% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 2.3% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 1.9% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 3.4% of projects set up for it |
| OpenAI Codex | 2.9% of projects set up for it |
| OpenCode | 3.4% of projects set up for it |
| Kiro | 4.1% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Marked as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install marked |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (86), Next.js (42), Python (10), PHP (6) |
| Example projects | NG-ZORRO/ng-zorro-antd, sunflower-land/sunflower-land, Kaggle/kaggle-environments, Doist/todoist-cli, blopa/Resume-Builder |
Alternatives to Marked
| 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 | — |
| 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 | — |
| Shiki npm Beautiful syntax highlighter powered by TextMate grammars with superior accuracy. |
89 (0.7%) | 24.9M | 13.9K | MIT |