How Pendulum is used
Pendulum joined the catalog on its public numbers (12,599,888 downloads a week on PyPI and 6,677 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 18 public GitHub projects of our scan, 0 of them set up for AI coding agents. The most used alternative in our scan is python-dateutil (102 projects). Projects that use it most often also use NumPy (100.0%), PyYAML (94.4%), attrs (88.9%).
Pendulum popularity over time
Gid Score 56: downloads 87, use in agent projects 26, GitHub stars 43, downloads trend 51 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Pendulum
| NumPy | 100.0% of Pendulum projects · 17.1× more than average |
|---|---|
| PyYAML | 94.4% of Pendulum projects · 15.9× more than average |
| attrs | 88.9% of Pendulum projects · 128.3× more than average |
| Click | 88.9% of Pendulum projects · 35.6× more than average |
| cryptography | 88.9% of Pendulum projects · 37.8× more than average |
| Jinja2 | 88.9% of Pendulum projects · 40.9× more than average |
| Pydantic | 88.9% of Pendulum projects · 10.3× more than average |
| Requests | 88.9% of Pendulum projects · 13.1× more than average |
How Pendulum is funded
GitHub Sponsors
| @sdispater | 3 current sponsors |
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GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay. Sponsors of a person back all of their work, which here includes tomlkit, Cleo.
Ways to fund Pendulum
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install pendulum |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (18) |
| Example projects | CodingWithLewis/MemeGenerator, chengzi0103/SoulSpeak, mhd-medfa/NoisyStudent-Based-Object-Recognition |
Alternatives to Pendulum
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Pendulum are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| python-dateutil pypi Extensions to Python's datetime module for advanced date and time manipulation. |
72 | 102 (6.3%) | 244M | 2,639 | Apache-2.0 / BSD |
| pytz pypi Python timezone library with historical and modern timezone definitions. |
65 | 58 (3.6%) | 108M | 396 | MIT |
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