Pydantic Settings
Settings management and configuration from environment variables using Pydantic.
Used in agent projects
251
2.0% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in dev workflow and config
#7 of 88
by use in those projects
Downloads
96.8M
PyPI, last 7 days, pydantic-settings
GitHub stars
1,475
last push Oct 9, 2026
How Pydantic Settings is used
Pydantic Settings is a dependency in 251 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (2.0%), #7 of 88 in dev workflow and config. The most used alternative there is dotenv. Projects that use it most often also use Pydantic (86.1%), Uvicorn (73.3%), FastAPI (69.7%). It is more common in projects set up for Roo Code (6.2%) than for OpenCode (1.6%).
Often used with Pydantic Settings
| Pydantic | 86.1% of Pydantic Settings projects · 16.8× more than average |
|---|---|
| Uvicorn | 73.3% of Pydantic Settings projects · 17.1× more than average |
| FastAPI | 69.7% of Pydantic Settings projects · 16.5× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 66.9% of Pydantic Settings projects · 10.3× more than average |
| SQLAlchemy | 42.6% of Pydantic Settings projects · 21.7× more than average |
| python-multipart | 41.0% of Pydantic Settings projects · 24.0× more than average |
| Requests | 37.1% of Pydantic Settings projects · 7.0× more than average |
| PyYAML | 35.5% of Pydantic Settings projects · 11.7× more than average |
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 3.8% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 3.2% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 2.9% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 2.5% of projects set up for it |
| Devin Desktop | 3.6% of projects set up for it |
| OpenAI Codex | 2.2% of projects set up for it |
| Roo Code | 6.2% of projects set up for it |
| OpenCode | 1.6% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Pydantic Settings as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install pydantic-settings |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (246), Next.js (5) |
| Example projects | learntocloud/learn-to-cloud-app, pavelzbornik/whisperX-FastAPI, twjackysu/TWSEMCPServer, bobmatnyc/claude-mpm, sweetcornna/free-search-mcp |
Alternatives to Pydantic Settings
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| dotenv npm Load environment variables from .env files into process.env. |
2,001 (15.8%) | 189M | 20.5K | BSD-2-Clause |
| python-dotenv pypi Load environment variables from .env files in Python applications. |
828 (6.5%) | 156M | 8,898 | BSD-3-Clause |
| Husky npm Modern Git hooks manager for running tasks on git events. |
797 (6.3%) | 36.2M | 35.3K | MIT |
| lint-staged npm Run linters on git staged files to catch issues before commit. |
591 (4.7%) | 29.5M | 14.7K | MIT |
| concurrently npm Run multiple npm scripts concurrently for efficient development workflows. |
572 (4.5%) | 22.2M | 7,856 | MIT |
| cross-env npm Set environment variables across Windows, Mac and Linux in npm scripts. |
265 (2.1%) | 25.8M | 6,521 | MIT |
| Rich pypi Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in terminal output. |
243 (1.9%) | 117M | 57.5K | MIT |
| rimraf npm Cross-platform delete directories and files recursively like Unix rm -rf command. |
230 (1.8%) | 16M | 5,855 | BlueOak-1.0.0 |