PyOTP
Generate and validate one-time passwords (OTP) for two-factor authentication.
Used in agent projects
21
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in auth and security libraries
#46 of 47
by use in those projects
Downloads
8.2M
PyPI, last 7 days, pyotp
GitHub stars
3,341
last push Jun 29, 2026
How PyOTP is used
PyOTP is a dependency in 21 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #46 of 47 in auth and security libraries. The most used alternative there is NextAuth.js. Projects that use it most often also use Pydantic (71.4%), aiohttp (66.7%), Requests (66.7%).
Often used with PyOTP
| Pydantic | 71.4% of PyOTP projects · 14.0× more than average |
|---|---|
| aiohttp | 66.7% of PyOTP projects · 28.7× more than average |
| Requests | 66.7% of PyOTP projects · 12.5× more than average |
| cryptography | 61.9% of PyOTP projects · 36.9× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 61.9% of PyOTP projects · 9.5× more than average |
| solders | 57.1% of PyOTP projects · 17.2× more than average |
| websockets | 57.1% of PyOTP projects · 25.4× more than average |
| NumPy | 52.4% of PyOTP projects · 13.7× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
|---|
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list PyOTP as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install pyotp |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (21) |
| Example projects | Josh-XT/AGiXT |
Alternatives to PyOTP
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NextAuth.js npm Complete open-source authentication solution designed for Next.js applications. |
266 (2.1%) | 6.7M | 28.4K | ISC |
| bcryptjs npm Pure JavaScript bcrypt implementation for secure password hashing without dependencies. |
256 (2.0%) | 14.7M | 3,797 | BSD-3-Clause |
| jsonwebtoken npm Create, verify and decode JSON Web Tokens for authentication and secure data transmission. |
241 (1.9%) | 59.3M | 18.2K | MIT |
| cryptography pypi Python library providing cryptographic recipes and primitives for secure applications. |
213 (1.7%) | 281M | 7,803 | — |
| jose npm Comprehensive JWT and JWK handling for Node.js and web runtimes. |
141 (1.1%) | 151M | 7,824 | MIT |
| PyJWT pypi Python library for encoding and decoding JSON Web Tokens. |
128 (1.0%) | 154M | 5,714 | — |
| Better Auth npm Comprehensive authentication framework for TypeScript with multiple strategies. |
126 (1.0%) | 11.4M | 30.2K | MIT |
| Helmet npm Express middleware that sets HTTP security headers to prevent vulnerabilities. |
125 (1.0%) | 16.2M | 10.7K | MIT |