Used in agent projects
23
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in utilities
#94 of 109
by use in those projects
Downloads
21M
npm, last 7 days, @paralleldrive/cuid2
GitHub stars
3,404
last push Aug 12, 2026
How cuid2 is used
cuid2 is a dependency in 23 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #94 of 109 in utilities. The most used alternative there is clsx. Projects that use it most often also use Class Variance Authority (95.7%), Tailwind Merge (95.7%), clsx (91.3%).
Often used with cuid2
| Class Variance Authority | 95.7% of cuid2 projects · 6.8× more than average |
|---|---|
| Tailwind Merge | 95.7% of cuid2 projects · 5.7× more than average |
| clsx | 91.3% of cuid2 projects · 5.2× more than average |
| Next.js | 91.3% of cuid2 projects · 4.1× more than average |
| Zod | 91.3% of cuid2 projects · 5.4× more than average |
| Lucide React | 87.0% of cuid2 projects · 4.4× more than average |
| Radix UI | 78.3% of cuid2 projects · 6.5× more than average |
| React Hook Form Resolvers | 73.9% of cuid2 projects · 10.6× more than average |
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list cuid2 as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install @paralleldrive/cuid2 |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Next.js (21), TypeScript / JavaScript (2) |
Alternatives to cuid2
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| clsx npm Tiny utility for conditionally constructing className strings. |
2,251 (17.7%) | 126M | 9,847 | MIT |
| date-fns npm Modern JavaScript date utility library with comprehensive formatting functions. |
1,079 (8.5%) | 97.6M | 36.6K | MIT |
| uuid npm Generate RFC9562 compliant UUIDs for unique identifiers in applications. |
454 (3.6%) | 296M | 15.3K | MIT |
| PyYAML pypi YAML parser and emitter for reading and writing YAML configuration files. |
385 (3.0%) | 239M | 2,954 | MIT |
| Lodash npm Modular utility library with methods for common programming tasks and data manipulation. |
269 (2.1%) | 162M | 61.4K | MIT |
| bn.js npm Big number library for handling arbitrary-precision integers in JavaScript. |
217 (1.7%) | 62.1M | 1,230 | MIT |
| python-dateutil pypi Extensions to Python's datetime module for advanced date and time manipulation. |
165 (1.3%) | 233M | 2,638 | Dual License |
| yaml npm JavaScript YAML parser and stringifier with full spec compliance. |
164 (1.3%) | 179M | 1,693 | ISC |