tqdm
Fast and extensible progress bar library for loops and iterables.
Utilities PyPI MPL-2.0 AND MIT
Used in agent projects
141
1.1% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in utilities
#13 of 109
by use in those projects
Downloads
103M
PyPI, last 7 days, tqdm
GitHub stars
31.4K
last push Oct 5, 2026
How tqdm is used
tqdm is a dependency in 141 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (1.1%), #13 of 109 in utilities. The most used alternative there is clsx. Projects that use it most often also use NumPy (73.8%), Requests (64.5%), python-dotenv (60.3%).
Often used with tqdm
| NumPy | 73.8% of tqdm projects · 19.2× more than average |
|---|---|
| Requests | 64.5% of tqdm projects · 12.1× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 60.3% of tqdm projects · 9.2× more than average |
| Pydantic | 60.3% of tqdm projects · 11.8× more than average |
| pandas | 58.9% of tqdm projects · 19.5× more than average |
| PyYAML | 54.6% of tqdm projects · 18.0× more than average |
| urllib3 | 46.1% of tqdm projects · 30.3× more than average |
| Click | 45.4% of tqdm projects · 25.8× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 1.6% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 1.6% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 1.5% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 1.1% 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 tqdm as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install tqdm |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (135), Next.js (5), Other (1) |
| Example projects | imbue-bit/AlphaGPT, prompt-security/ps-fuzz, Kaggle/kaggle-environments, pavelzbornik/whisperX-FastAPI, pipedude/evi-run |
Alternatives to tqdm
| 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 |