How Pika is used
Pika is a dependency in 3 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 37 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is Kombu (7 projects). Projects that use it most often also use NumPy (89.2%), scikit-learn (89.2%), NetworkX (86.5%).
Pika popularity over time
Gid Score 52: downloads 73, use in agent projects 36, GitHub stars 34, downloads trend 56 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Pika
| NumPy | 89.2% of Pika projects · 15.3× more than average |
|---|---|
| scikit-learn | 89.2% of Pika projects · 41.6× more than average |
| NetworkX | 86.5% of Pika projects · 86.6× more than average |
| python-dateutil | 86.5% of Pika projects · 52.6× more than average |
| Requests | 86.5% of Pika projects · 12.7× more than average |
| tqdm | 86.5% of Pika projects · 49.3× more than average |
| pytz | 83.8% of Pika projects · 89.7× more than average |
| redis (Python) | 83.8% of Pika projects · 41.9× more than average |
From all 37 projects in our scan that use Pika, including the dependency samples.
Install
| Package | pip install pika |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (37) |
| Example projects | pengyou200902/Doctor-Friende, LuoFanA595/Medical-Robot-AI, OpenDataBox/MemoryData, smile-wingbow/pudding-robot, AbhilashPal/MuseNet |
Alternatives to Pika
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Pika are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kombu pypi Python messaging library for task queues, supporting multiple brokers and transports. |
56 | 7 (0.4%) | 11.6M | 3,151 | BSD-3-Clause |
| NATS Python client pypi · new in the catalog Python client for NATS messaging and JetStream. |
41 | 5 (0.3%) | 1.5M | 1,264 | Apache-2.0 |
| confluent-kafka-python pypi · new in the catalog Confluent's Python client for Apache Kafka. |
46 | 3 (0.2%) | 10.3M | 521 | Apache-2.0 |
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