Polars
High-performance DataFrame library optimized for data manipulation and analysis.
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How Polars is used
Polars is a dependency in 14 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 66 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is pandas (267 projects). Projects that use it most often also use NumPy (71.2%), pandas (71.2%), python-dotenv (63.6%).
Polars popularity over time
Gid Score 68: downloads 88, use in agent projects 45, GitHub stars 73, downloads trend 54 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Polars
| NumPy | 71.2% of Polars projects · 12.2× more than average |
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| pandas | 71.2% of Polars projects · 16.6× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 63.6% of Polars projects · 6.9× more than average |
| Requests | 62.1% of Polars projects · 9.1× more than average |
| Pydantic | 60.6% of Polars projects · 7.0× more than average |
| Matplotlib | 57.6% of Polars projects · 21.4× more than average |
| PyYAML | 57.6% of Polars projects · 9.7× more than average |
| tqdm | 54.5% of Polars projects · 31.1× more than average |
From all 66 projects in our scan that use Polars, including the dependency samples.
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
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Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Polars as a dependency.
How Polars is funded
GitHub Sponsors
| @ritchie46 | 27 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.
Ways to fund Polars
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install polars |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (66) |
| Example projects | digitranslab/allama, camel-ai/seta, bogoconic1/Qgentic-AI, OpenDFM/Xcientist, NNNightglow/replay |
Alternatives to Polars
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Polars are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pandas pypi Data manipulation and analysis library with DataFrames for structured data. |
87 | 267 (16.5%) | 147M | 50.2K | BSD |
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