Used in agent projects
20
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in http clients and networking
#29 of 29
by use in those projects
Downloads
23M
PyPI, last 7 days, pyzmq
GitHub stars
4,179
last push Oct 9, 2026
How PyZMQ is used
PyZMQ is a dependency in 20 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #29 of 29 in http clients and networking. The most used alternative there is Axios. Projects that use it most often also use charset-normalizer (90.0%), IPython (90.0%), packaging (90.0%).
Often used with PyZMQ
| charset-normalizer | 90.0% of PyZMQ projects · 72.3× more than average |
|---|---|
| IPython | 90.0% of PyZMQ projects · 346.3× more than average |
| packaging | 90.0% of PyZMQ projects · 79.4× more than average |
| prompt-toolkit | 90.0% of PyZMQ projects · 259.7× more than average |
| Pygments | 90.0% of PyZMQ projects · 117.8× more than average |
| python-dateutil | 90.0% of PyZMQ projects · 69.3× more than average |
| Requests | 90.0% of PyZMQ projects · 16.9× more than average |
Install
| Package | pip install pyzmq |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (19), Next.js (1) |
| Example projects | AndreAugusto11/XChainDataGen, nihilistau/CosySim, brandoz2255/Harvis, gabrielfior/solana-analytics-101 |
Alternatives to PyZMQ
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Axios npm Promise-based HTTP client for browser and Node.js with interceptors. |
1,264 (10.0%) | 115M | 109K | MIT |
| Requests pypi Elegant Python HTTP library for making web requests. |
675 (5.3%) | 309M | 54.6K | Apache-2.0 |
| aiohttp pypi Async HTTP client/server framework for Python with WebSocket support. |
295 (2.3%) | 117M | 16.6K | — |
| ws npm Simple, fast WebSocket client and server for Node.js with full RFC support. |
287 (2.3%) | 283M | 22.8K | MIT |
| websockets pypi WebSocket implementation for Python with RFC 6455 and 7692 compliance. |
286 (2.3%) | 109M | 5,732 | — |
| httpx pypi Modern Python HTTP client with async support, replacing the standard requests library. |
266 (2.1%) | 16M | 15.6K | BSD-3-Clause |
| node-fetch npm Bring the Fetch API to Node.js for making HTTP requests. |
219 (1.7%) | 207M | 8,852 | MIT |
| urllib3 pypi HTTP client with thread-safe connection pooling, file uploads and advanced features. |
193 (1.5%) | 338M | 4,071 | — |