pyvips
Python binding for libvips: fast image processing with low memory use.
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How pyvips is used
AgentGid editors added pyvips to the catalog as a well-known library for images. In our scan it appears in 5 public GitHub projects, 0 of them set up for AI coding agents, so there is too little project data to rank it against the tools people use most. The most used alternative in our scan is Pillow (238 projects). Projects that use it most often also use PyYAML (100.0%), Requests (100.0%), attrs (80.0%).
pyvips popularity over time
Gid Score 28: downloads 51, use in agent projects 7, GitHub stars 8, downloads trend 44 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with pyvips
| PyYAML | 100.0% of pyvips projects · 16.8× more than average |
|---|---|
| Requests | 100.0% of pyvips projects · 14.7× more than average |
| attrs | 80.0% of pyvips projects · 115.5× more than average |
| Beautiful Soup | 80.0% of pyvips projects · 37.1× more than average |
| cachetools | 80.0% of pyvips projects · 141.9× more than average |
| CFFI | 80.0% of pyvips projects · 124.2× more than average |
| charset-normalizer | 80.0% of pyvips projects · 74.1× more than average |
| Click | 80.0% of pyvips projects · 32.0× more than average |
How pyvips is funded
Open Collective: libvips
| Received, last 12 months | $15,489 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $17,873 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $13,528 |
| Raised since the start | $79,822 · $66,293 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $268 · $268 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | +47% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 19 |
Top company backers all time, 31 companies in total
| Shopify | $20,010 since Jul 2021 |
|---|---|
| Sanity | $8,000 since Nov 2024 |
| GatsbyJS | $4,500 since Oct 2019 |
| Evil Martians | $3,730 since Jan 2020 |
| Liip AG | $2,800 since Mar 2022 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Sep 2019. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 1 more tool in our catalog: Sharp.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
Ways to fund pyvips
Open Collective
As the maintainers list them on PyPI. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install pyvips |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (5) |
| Example projects | Luffy03/Large-Scale-Medical, GeotrekCE/Geotrek-admin, Luffy03/FreeTumor, LetterLiGo/Agent-WebCloak |
Alternatives to pyvips
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside pyvips are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pillow pypi Python imaging library for image processing, manipulation and conversion. |
82 | 238 (14.7%) | 137M | 13.9K | MIT-CMU |
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