Tenacity
Retry library for Python that simplifies adding retry logic with exponential backoff.
Utilities PyPI
Used in agent projects
124
1.0% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in utilities
#19 of 109
by use in those projects
Downloads
87.4M
PyPI, last 7 days, tenacity
GitHub stars
8,802
last push Oct 7, 2026
How Tenacity is used
Tenacity is a dependency in 124 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (1.0%), #19 of 109 in utilities. The most used alternative there is clsx. Projects that use it most often also use Pydantic (79.0%), python-dotenv (73.4%), Requests (59.7%).
Often used with Tenacity
| Pydantic | 79.0% of Tenacity projects · 15.5× more than average |
|---|---|
| python-dotenv | 73.4% of Tenacity projects · 11.3× more than average |
| Requests | 59.7% of Tenacity projects · 11.2× more than average |
| NumPy | 57.3% of Tenacity projects · 14.9× more than average |
| PyYAML | 52.4% of Tenacity projects · 17.3× more than average |
| SQLAlchemy | 50.8% of Tenacity projects · 25.8× more than average |
| FastAPI | 49.2% of Tenacity projects · 11.6× more than average |
| Uvicorn | 49.2% of Tenacity projects · 11.5× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 1.4% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 1.4% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 1.4% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 1.6% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Tenacity as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install tenacity |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (120), Next.js (3), Other (1) |
| Example projects | learntocloud/learn-to-cloud-app, Kaggle/kaggle-environments, owid/etl, XargonWan/Synthetic_Heart, mikegianfelice/Hunter |
Alternatives to Tenacity
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| clsx npm Tiny utility for conditionally constructing className strings. |
2,251 (17.7%) | 126M | 9,847 | MIT |
| date-fns npm Modern JavaScript date utility library with comprehensive formatting functions. |
1,079 (8.5%) | 97.6M | 36.6K | MIT |
| uuid npm Generate RFC9562 compliant UUIDs for unique identifiers in applications. |
454 (3.6%) | 296M | 15.3K | MIT |
| PyYAML pypi YAML parser and emitter for reading and writing YAML configuration files. |
385 (3.0%) | 239M | 2,954 | MIT |
| Lodash npm Modular utility library with methods for common programming tasks and data manipulation. |
269 (2.1%) | 162M | 61.4K | MIT |
| bn.js npm Big number library for handling arbitrary-precision integers in JavaScript. |
217 (1.7%) | 62.1M | 1,230 | MIT |
| python-dateutil pypi Extensions to Python's datetime module for advanced date and time manipulation. |
165 (1.3%) | 233M | 2,638 | Dual License |
| yaml npm JavaScript YAML parser and stringifier with full spec compliance. |
164 (1.3%) | 179M | 1,693 | ISC |