How Moto is used
Moto joined the catalog on its public numbers (10,696,448 downloads a week on PyPI and 8,713 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 9 public GitHub projects of our scan, 3 of them set up for AI coding agents. Projects that use it most often also use Boto3 (100.0%), pytest (100.0%), Requests (100.0%).
Moto popularity over time
Gid Score 54: downloads 86, use in agent projects 16, GitHub stars 48, downloads trend 57 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Moto
| Boto3 | 100.0% of Moto projects · 103.5× more than average |
|---|---|
| pytest | 100.0% of Moto projects · 24.3× more than average |
| Requests | 100.0% of Moto projects · 14.7× more than average |
| Pydantic | 66.7% of Moto projects · 7.7× more than average |
| botocore | 55.6% of Moto projects · 164.2× more than average |
| Jinja2 | 55.6% of Moto projects · 25.5× more than average |
| NumPy | 55.6% of Moto projects · 9.5× more than average |
| PyYAML | 55.6% of Moto projects · 9.3× more than average |
How Moto is funded
Open Collective: Moto
| Received, last 12 months | $4,794 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $5,270 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $7,289 |
| Raised since the start | $9,132 · $1,841 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $24 · $24 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | +674% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 2 |
Top company backers all time
| THANKS.DEV | $746 since Oct 2023 |
|---|
Apr 2023Sep 2026
Money by month. First money received in Apr 2023. 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
| @getmoto | 0 current sponsors |
|---|
GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay.
Ways to fund Moto
GitHub Sponsors Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install moto |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (9) |
| Example projects | Open-TutorAi/open-tutor-ai-CE, Element84/e84-geoai-common |
Alternatives to Moto
In our scan, none of the most used tools in Testing does the same job as Moto: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
More in Testing: Vitest Playwright (JavaScript) Testing Library jsdom Jest pytest Happy DOM axe-core Playwright