Supabase Realtime
Python client for Supabase Realtime with WebSocket subscriptions.
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How Supabase Realtime is used
Supabase Realtime is a dependency in 5 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 73 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. Projects that use it most often also use AnyIO (100.0%), packaging (100.0%), PostgREST (100.0%).
Supabase Realtime popularity over time
Gid Score 72: downloads 82, use in agent projects 46, GitHub stars 90, downloads trend 63 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Supabase Realtime
| AnyIO | 100.0% of Supabase Realtime projects · 67.5× more than average |
|---|---|
| packaging | 100.0% of Supabase Realtime projects · 68.2× more than average |
| PostgREST | 100.0% of Supabase Realtime projects · 776.0× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 100.0% of Supabase Realtime projects · 10.9× more than average |
| Requests | 100.0% of Supabase Realtime projects · 14.7× more than average |
| charset-normalizer | 97.3% of Supabase Realtime projects · 90.1× more than average |
| h2 | 97.3% of Supabase Realtime projects · 862.6× more than average |
From all 73 projects in our scan that use Supabase Realtime, including the dependency samples.
How Supabase Realtime is funded
Open Collective: SupaSquad
| Received, last 12 months | $330,000 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $380,000 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $25,343 |
| Raised since the start | $944,250 · $918,907 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $25,000 · $0 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | +14% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 3 |
Top company backers all time
| Supabase | $644,250 since Jun 2021 |
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Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Jun 2021. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
Open Collective lists this collective for the supabase organization on GitHub, so the money is for all of its projects, not Supabase Realtime alone.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Supabase. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @supabase | 22 current sponsors |
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GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay.
Ways to fund Supabase Realtime
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install realtime |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (71), Next.js (2) |
| Example projects | quarqlabs/argus, aihes/LangChain-Tutorials-and-Examples, Hoanganhvu123/ShoppingGPT, pdichone/crawl4ai-rag-system, tylerprogramming/crewai-frontend |
Alternatives to Supabase Realtime
In our scan, none of the most used tools in SDKs for hosted services does the same job as Supabase Realtime: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
More in SDKs for hosted services: Supabase JS Supabase SSR AWS SDK for JavaScript (S3) Resend Stripe (JavaScript) Supabase CLI Firebase Stripe.js