Streamdown
Drop-in markdown renderer optimized for AI-powered streaming content.
Markdown, editors and content npm Apache-2.0
Used in agent projects
35
0.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in markdown, editors and content
#32 of 46
by use in those projects
Downloads
7M
npm, last 7 days, streamdown
GitHub stars
5,686
last push Oct 9, 2026
How Streamdown is used
Streamdown is a dependency in 35 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.3%), #32 of 46 in markdown, editors and content. The most used alternative there is react-markdown. Projects that use it most often also use Class Variance Authority (97.1%), clsx (97.1%), Lucide React (97.1%).
Often used with Streamdown
| Class Variance Authority | 97.1% of Streamdown projects · 6.9× more than average |
|---|---|
| clsx | 97.1% of Streamdown projects · 5.5× more than average |
| Lucide React | 97.1% of Streamdown projects · 4.9× more than average |
| Tailwind Merge | 97.1% of Streamdown projects · 5.8× more than average |
| Zod | 94.3% of Streamdown projects · 5.6× more than average |
| Radix UI | 91.4% of Streamdown projects · 7.6× more than average |
| cmdk | 82.9% of Streamdown projects · 15.3× more than average |
| Nanoid | 80.0% of Streamdown projects · 63.1× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.6% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 0.7% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Streamdown as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install streamdown |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Next.js (23), TypeScript / JavaScript (11), Rust (1) |
| Example projects | LiorVainer/data-israel, andrelandgraf/fullstackrecipes, databayt/hogwarts, genlayerlabs/intelligent-oracle, pratikbuilds/402x-solana-ui |
Alternatives to Streamdown
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| react-markdown npm React component for rendering markdown with customizable component handling. |
360 (2.8%) | 37.2M | 15.9K | MIT |
| remark-gfm npm Remark plugin adding GitHub Flavored Markdown support for tables and strikethrough. |
288 (2.3%) | 44.5M | 1,249 | MIT |
| Jinja2 pypi Fast and expressive template engine for Python with powerful flexibility. |
175 (1.4%) | 145M | 11.8K | — |
| Marked npm Fast, efficient markdown parser for converting markdown to HTML. |
148 (1.2%) | 83.8M | 37.2K | MIT |
| React Syntax Highlighter npm React component for syntax highlighting code with Prism.js or Highlight.js. |
110 (0.9%) | 7.8M | 4,674 | MIT |
| gray-matter npm Parser extracting YAML/JSON front matter from markdown and text files. |
106 (0.8%) | 10.6M | 4,490 | MIT |
| Tiptap npm Headless Vue/React rich text editor framework with customizable extensions. |
105 (0.8%) | 18.7M | 38.7K | MIT |
| Pygments pypi Syntax highlighting library for code in Python supporting hundreds of programming languages. |
97 (0.8%) | 239M | 2,213 | — |