Spyder Kernels
Jupyter kernels for Spyder IDE's enhanced interactive console.
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How Spyder Kernels is used
Spyder Kernels is a dependency in 0 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 20 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. Projects that use it most often also use astroid (100.0%), attrs (100.0%), Babel (Python) (100.0%).
Spyder Kernels popularity over time
Gid Score 26: downloads 28, use in agent projects 28, GitHub stars 0, downloads trend 61 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Spyder Kernels
| astroid | 100.0% of Spyder Kernels projects · 2069.3× more than average |
|---|---|
| attrs | 100.0% of Spyder Kernels projects · 144.4× more than average |
| Babel (Python) | 100.0% of Spyder Kernels projects · 443.4× more than average |
| Bleach | 100.0% of Spyder Kernels projects · 443.4× more than average |
| CFFI | 100.0% of Spyder Kernels projects · 155.2× more than average |
| chardet (Python) | 100.0% of Spyder Kernels projects · 248.3× more than average |
| Click | 100.0% of Spyder Kernels projects · 40.1× more than average |
| cloudpickle | 100.0% of Spyder Kernels projects · 776.0× more than average |
From all 20 projects in our scan that use Spyder Kernels, including the dependency samples.
How Spyder Kernels is funded
Open Collective: Spyder IDE
| Received, last 12 months | $19,757 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $21,603 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $4,611 |
| Raised since the start | $130,802 · $126,191 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $336 · $1,340 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | +10% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 78 |
Top company backers all time, 15 companies in total
| NumFOCUS | $58,761 since Sep 2024 |
|---|---|
| Python Software Foundation | $4,000 since Jul 2021 |
| Levitronix GmbH | $900 since Nov 2018 |
| EAF LLC | $300 since Mar 2020 |
| Aeonsemi, Inc | $300 since Jul 2020 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Nov 2017. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 2 more tools in our catalog: QtPy, QtAwesome.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host NumFOCUS. Source
Ways to fund Spyder Kernels
Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install spyder-kernels |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (20) |
| Example projects | rsanshierli/EasyBert, AbhilashPal/MuseNet, mhd-medfa/NoisyStudent-Based-Object-Recognition |
Alternatives to Spyder Kernels
In our scan, none of the most used tools in Dev workflow and config does the same job as Spyder Kernels: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
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