Pipecat
Open source framework for building voice and multimodal AI assistants with real-time support.
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How Pipecat is used
Pipecat is a dependency in 2 of the 6,211 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 2,717, Ethereum and EVM 1,533, 3D and games 2,862, agent frameworks and SDKs 11,237); counting those, it appears in 105 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is LangChain (126 projects). Projects that use it most often also use python-dotenv (87.6%), FastAPI (64.8%), Uvicorn (62.9%).
Pipecat popularity over time
Gid Score 55: downloads 54, use in agent projects 52, GitHub stars 58, downloads trend 57 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Pipecat
| python-dotenv | 87.6% of Pipecat projects · 9.6× more than average |
|---|---|
| FastAPI | 64.8% of Pipecat projects · 8.7× more than average |
| Uvicorn | 62.9% of Pipecat projects · 8.2× more than average |
| Loguru | 40.0% of Pipecat projects · 38.2× more than average |
| NumPy | 26.7% of Pipecat projects · 4.6× more than average |
| websockets | 21.9% of Pipecat projects · 11.0× more than average |
| aiohttp | 21.9% of Pipecat projects · 10.6× more than average |
| OpenAI Python Library | 21.0% of Pipecat projects · 5.3× more than average |
From all 105 projects in our scan that use Pipecat, including the dependency samples.
Install
| Package | pip install pipecat-ai |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (105) |
| Example projects | bentoml/BentoVoiceAgent, kwindla/evals-course-voice, tensology/decisionsai, sam-s10s/pipecat-guess-who, kylecampbell/pipecat-tavus-avatar-agent |
Alternatives to Pipecat
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Pipecat are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LangChain pypi Framework for composing applications with LLMs through chains and agents. |
88 | 126 (7.8%) | 37.3M | 148K | MIT |
| LangGraph pypi Framework for building stateful, multi-actor applications with LLMs. |
78 | 76 (4.7%) | 12.5M | 43.6K | MIT |
| Pydantic AI pypi AI agent framework built with Pydantic for structured, typed agent development. |
62 | 16 (1.0%) | 1.5M | 20.7K | MIT |
| LlamaIndex pypi Framework to build RAG applications connecting LLMs to your custom data and documents. |
63 | 11 (0.7%) | 644K | 52.6K | MIT |
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