SciPy
Fundamental algorithms for scientific computing with optimized numerical routines.
ML and data science PyPI
Used in agent projects
141
1.1% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in ml and data science
#4 of 28
by use in those projects
Downloads
72.2M
PyPI, last 7 days, scipy
GitHub stars
15.1K
last push Oct 10, 2026
How SciPy is used
SciPy is a dependency in 141 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (1.1%), #4 of 28 in ml and data science. The most used alternative there is NumPy. Projects that use it most often also use NumPy (91.5%), pandas (69.5%), scikit-learn (56.7%).
Often used with SciPy
| NumPy | 91.5% of SciPy projects · 23.9× more than average |
|---|---|
| pandas | 69.5% of SciPy projects · 23.0× more than average |
| scikit-learn | 56.7% of SciPy projects · 45.0× more than average |
| Requests | 53.9% of SciPy projects · 10.1× more than average |
| Pydantic | 50.4% of SciPy projects · 9.9× more than average |
| Matplotlib | 48.2% of SciPy projects · 31.6× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 46.8% of SciPy projects · 7.2× more than average |
| PyYAML | 44.0% of SciPy projects · 14.5× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 1.8% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 1.8% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 1.5% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 2.5% of projects set up for it |
| OpenAI Codex | 1.8% 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 SciPy as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install scipy |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (137), Next.js (4) |
| Example projects | Kaggle/kaggle-environments, daydreamlive/DEMON, owid/etl, MDalamin5/End-to-End-Agentic-Ai-Automation-Lab, manykarim/robotframework-agentskills |
Alternatives to SciPy
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NumPy pypi Fundamental Python library for numerical computing with arrays and matrices. |
487 (3.8%) | 21M | 33K | — |
| pandas pypi Data manipulation and analysis library with DataFrames for structured data. |
383 (3.0%) | 143M | 50K | — |
| scikit-learn pypi Python machine learning library with classification, regression and clustering algorithms. |
160 (1.3%) | 44.3M | 67.5K | — |
| PyTorch pypi Deep learning framework with tensors and dynamic neural networks with GPU support. |
109 (0.9%) | 13.2M | 104K | — |
| Sentence Transformers pypi Pre-trained models for semantic embeddings, retrieval and reranking. |
83 (0.7%) | 5.1M | 19.2K | — |
| Hugging Face Transformers pypi State-of-the-art NLP and multimodal models for inference and training. |
80 (0.6%) | 24.8M | 167K | Apache 2.0 License |
| NetworkX pypi Python package for creating, analyzing and manipulating complex networks and graphs. |
73 (0.6%) | 50.2M | 17.3K | — |
| joblib pypi Lightweight pipelining and parallel computing for Python functions with caching support. |
65 (0.5%) | 38.7M | 4,403 | — |