Panel
Web app and data exploration framework for building dashboards and interactive apps.
Web frameworks PyPI BSD
How Panel is used
Panel is a dependency in 0 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 53 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is Streamlit (67 projects). Projects that use it most often also use pandas (96.2%), Beautiful Soup (94.3%), Bokeh (94.3%).
Panel popularity over time
Gid Score 43: downloads 52, use in agent projects 42, GitHub stars 41, downloads trend 28 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Panel
| pandas | 96.2% of Panel projects · 22.4× more than average |
|---|---|
| Beautiful Soup | 94.3% of Panel projects · 43.7× more than average |
| Bokeh | 94.3% of Panel projects · 1952.2× more than average |
| NumPy | 94.3% of Panel projects · 16.2× more than average |
| Markdown | 92.5% of Panel projects · 124.8× more than average |
| Matplotlib | 92.5% of Panel projects · 34.4× more than average |
| mpmath | 92.5% of Panel projects · 410.0× more than average |
| NLTK | 92.5% of Panel projects · 318.9× more than average |
From all 53 projects in our scan that use Panel, including the dependency samples.
How Panel is funded
Open Collective: HoloViz
| Received, last 12 months | $259 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $259 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $517 |
| Raised since the start | $1,281 · $764 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $0 · $0 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | +4217% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 2 |
Top company backers all time
| NumFOCUS | $1,017 since Jun 2023 |
|---|---|
| THANKS.DEV | $259 since May 2026 |
Jun 2023Sep 2026
Money by month. First money received in Jun 2023. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 5 more tools in our catalog: HoloViews, Param, Colorcet, Datashader, hvPlot.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host NumFOCUS. Source
Ways to fund Panel
Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install panel |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (53) |
| Example projects | opengeos/geospatial, namuan/llm-playground, tomerwolgithub/question-decomposition-to-sql, m-abbas-ansari/SuperResolution-DEMs, lanl/InferA |
Alternatives to Panel
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Panel are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Streamlit pypi Framework for rapidly building and sharing interactive data apps and dashboards in Python. |
76 | 67 (4.1%) | 5.2M | 46K | Apache-2.0 |
| Dash pypi Python framework for building reactive web applications with data visualization by Plotly. |
58 | 13 (0.8%) | 1.7M | 24.5K | MIT |
| NiceGUI pypi · new in the catalog Web user interfaces written in Python. |
47 | 2 (0.1%) | 304K | 16.3K | MIT |
| Reflex pypi · new in the catalog Full-stack web apps in pure Python. |
37 | 2 (0.1%) | 55.7K | 29K | Apache-2.0 |
| Voilà pypi · new in the catalog Turn Jupyter notebooks into interactive standalone web applications. |
32 | 0 (0.0%) | 30.2K | 5,954 | BSD |
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