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MCP ServerActive
Agentor (LiteMCP)
Agentor framework includes LiteMCP, a native ASGI MCP server that integrates directly with FastAPI using standard patterns. Supports decorator-based tool definitions with built-in CORS and authentication controls.
Hero Score 52
AgentRecently updated
Agno
Performance-oriented multi-agent framework with built-in memory, knowledge, and multi-modal support.
Hero Score 67
HTTP ClientsActive
Aiohttp
Async-first HTTP client and server framework.
Hero Score 75
Workflow OrchestrationRecently updated
Airflow
Mature, extensible platform to author, schedule, and monitor workflows as DAGs with a rich UI and huge operator ecosystem.
Hero Score 78
Data VisualizationActive
Altair
Declarative statistical visualization library based on the Vega-Lite grammar — concise, expressive grammar of graphics for Python.
Hero Score 61
Vector DatabaseInactive
Annoy
Approximate Nearest Neighbor Oh-Yeah — lightweight C++/Python library for fast, memory-efficient ANN search with static indexes (good for embedding similarity).
Hero Score 52
LLM GatewayRecently updated
Anthropic Python SDK
Official Anthropic Python client for the Claude API — messages, streaming, tool use, prompt caching, and AWS Bedrock / Vertex AI integration.
Hero Score 82
Async RuntimeActive
AnyIO
Async networking and concurrency library that runs on top of asyncio or Trio — provides Trio-style structured concurrency primitives with broad compatibility.
Hero Score 76
CLIActive
Argparse
Python's built-in command-line parsing library (standard library); supports options, flags, subcommands, type conversion, and help text.
Hero Score 45
LLM ObservabilityRecently updated
Arize Phoenix
Open-source LLM observability and evaluation platform from Arize — built on OpenTelemetry, runs locally or self-hosted with rich tracing UI.
Hero Score 74
Async RuntimeActive
asyncio
Built-in Python library for writing concurrent code using async/await syntax, providing the default event loop and task scheduling system.
Hero Score 75
Data ValidationActive
attrs
Class boilerplate generator that produces well-behaved data classes with validators, converters, and slots — predates and complements dataclasses.
Hero Score 76
AgentInactive
AutoGen
Microsoft framework for multi-agent conversations, workflows, and tool use.
Hero Score 55
Web ScrapingInactive
BeautifulSoup
Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files; pairs well with requests, lxml, or html.parser.
Hero Score 63
Model ServingRecently updated
BentoML
Open-source Python framework for packaging, serving, and deploying ML/LLM models as production APIs — model-agnostic with built-in adaptive batching.
Hero Score 73
Linting And FormattingRecently updated
Black
The uncompromising Python code formatter — produces consistent, deterministic output with minimal config.
Hero Score 75
Data VisualizationInactive
Bokeh
Interactive visualization library for modern web browsers — handles large/streaming datasets and produces standalone HTML or app dashboards.
Hero Score 64
Browser Use AgentRecently updated
browser-use
Open-source Python library for building AI agents that drive browsers — give it a goal in natural language and an LLM figures out the clicks, scrolls, and form fills via Playwright.
Hero Score 76
Text ChunkingRecently updated
Chonkie
Lightweight, fast text chunking library for RAG pipelines with multiple strategies (token, sentence, semantic, neural) and 32+ integrations.
Hero Score 74
Vector DatabaseRecently updated
Chroma
Lightweight open-source embedding database built for local, serverless, or cloud-backed vector search — ideal for prototyping RAG apps.
Hero Score 67
CLIRecently updated
Click
Composable Python package for creating beautiful command-line interfaces with minimal code (options, prompts, subcommands).
Hero Score 74
Web ScrapingActive
Crawl4AI
LLM-friendly web crawler and scraper that returns clean markdown/JSON optimized for RAG and LLM ingestion — async-first with browser automation.
Hero Score 61
AgentRecently updated
CrewAI
Framework for multi-agent "crews" with roles and tools for collaborative tasks.
Hero Score 65
Workflow OrchestrationRecently updated
Dagster
Modern data orchestrator with software-defined assets, type-checked I/O, and rich UI for data platforms.
Hero Score 71
AppActive
Dash
A Python framework for building reactive web-apps. Developed by Plotly.
Hero Score 62
Data AnalysisActive
Dask
Parallel and distributed computing for Python — scale pandas/numpy beyond memory across cores or clusters.
Hero Score 76
Data ValidationInactive
Dataclasses
Built-in Python module for lightweight data structures — provides boilerplate-free class creation with type hints and defaults.
Hero Score 76
Synthetic Data GenerationActive
Datafast
Synthetic text dataset generator for LLM projects supporting classification, instruction, MCQ, and preference datasets via multiple LLM providers.
Hero Score 41
LLM EvaluationRecently updated
DeepEval
Pytest-style framework for evaluating LLM outputs with built-in metrics — hallucination, answer relevancy, faithfulness, G-Eval, and more.
Hero Score 71
WebInactive
Django
Batteries-included web framework with ORM, auth, and admin.
Hero Score 72
Document ParsingRecently updated
Docling
Open-source toolkit by IBM Research for parsing diverse document formats (PDF, DOCX, PPTX, HTML, XLSX, images, audio) into a unified structured representation ideal for GenAI and RAG workflows. Hosted by LF AI & Data Foundation.
Hero Score 79
AgentRecently updated
DSPy
Stanford framework for programming LLMs declaratively with signatures, modules, and prompt optimizers.
Hero Score 59
Vector DatabaseRecently updated
FAISS
Meta's library for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors — the indexing primitive behind many vector DBs.
Hero Score 63
Synthetic Data GenerationRecently updated
Faker
Popular library for generating fake but realistic data such as names, addresses, emails, dates, text, and more for testing and prototyping.
Hero Score 78
WebRecently updated
FastAPI
High-performance async APIs with automatic OpenAPI docs.
Hero Score 83
EmbeddingActive
FastEmbed
Lightweight ONNX-based embedding library by Qdrant — runs on CPU with no PyTorch dependency, designed for fast batch inference in production RAG pipelines.
Hero Score 73
MCP ServerRecently updated
FastMCP
The standard Python framework for building MCP servers and clients.
Hero Score 83
CLIInactive
Fire
Google's library for automatically generating CLIs from any Python object — turns functions, classes, or modules into command-line tools.
Hero Score 61
EmbeddingActive
FlagEmbedding
Embedding and reranking library from BAAI — home of the BGE family of state-of-the-art retrieval models with multilingual, multimodal, and long-context variants.
Hero Score 53
Linting And FormattingInactive
flake8
Wraps pycodestyle, pyflakes, and McCabe complexity into a single command-line linter with a plugin system.
Hero Score 71
WebActive
Flask
Minimal, flexible microframework with a massive ecosystem.
Hero Score 78
String MatchingInactive
FuzzyWuzzy
Classic fuzzy string matching library based on Levenshtein distance; largely superseded by RapidFuzz and archived in 2024.
Hero Score 48
LLM EvaluationRecently updated
Giskard
Open-source testing & evaluation platform for ML/LLM — test suites, bias/safety checks, and regression testing with a web UI.
Hero Score 51
AgentRecently updated
Google Agent Developer Kit (ADK)
Lightweight open-source flexible and modular framework for developing and deploying AI agents. While optimized for Gemini and the Google ecosystem, ADK is model-agnostic, deployment-agnostic, and is built for compatibility with other frameworks
Hero Score 68
AppRecently updated
Gradio
Build shareable ML/AI web apps and demos—fast.
Hero Score 72
Agent MemoryRecently updated
Graphiti
Temporal knowledge-graph memory for AI agents — extracts entities and relationships from conversations into a Neo4j-backed graph that tracks how facts evolve over time.
Hero Score 60
Package ManagerActive
Hatch
Modern, extensible Python project manager from PyPA — environments, build, publish, and version management with plugin system.
Hero Score 60
LLM OrchestrationRecently updated
Haystack
End-to-end pipelines for RAG, search, and evaluation (v2 haystack-ai).
Hero Score 69
HTTP ClientsInactive
HTTPX
Requests-like client with sync + async and HTTP/2.
Hero Score 72
Code TestingRecently updated
Hypothesis
Property-based testing library that generates examples to find edge cases your example-based tests miss.
Hero Score 76
LLM EvaluationInactive
Inspect AI
UK AI Safety Institute's framework for large-scale LLM evaluations — solvers, scorers, and rich logging for benchmarks and safety evals.
Hero Score 60
LLM GatewayActive
Instructor
Structured outputs from LLMs using Pydantic — patches OpenAI/Anthropic/Cohere/etc. clients to return validated typed objects with retries.
Hero Score 74
Linting And FormattingActive
isort
Sorts and formats Python imports automatically by section and alphabetically — pairs naturally with formatters.
Hero Score 69
Vector DatabaseRecently updated
LanceDB
Embedded serverless vector database in Rust, built on the Lance columnar format — local-first with cloud sync.
Hero Score 71
LLM OrchestrationRecently updated
LangChain
Modular framework for building LLM apps and agent workflows(Includes LangGraph).
Hero Score 77
Text ChunkingRecently updated
LangChain Text Splitters
Text splitting utilities from the LangChain ecosystem supporting character, token, recursive, semantic, and code-aware chunking strategies.
Hero Score 80
LLM ObservabilityRecently updated
Langfuse
Open-source observability & evaluation platform for LLM/agent applications — tracing, metrics, datasets, prompt versioning, UI, self-hostable.
Hero Score 77
AgentRecently updated
LangGraph
Graph-based orchestration framework for building stateful, controllable LLM agents as nodes and edges.
Hero Score 73
LLM ObservabilityRecently updated
LangSmith
Unified observability & evaluation platform for LLM/agent applications — tracing, dashboards, alerts, feedback & evaluation.
Hero Score 76
Agent MemoryRecently updated
Letta
Stateful agent framework formerly known as MemGPT — gives agents long-term memory through self-managed context windows that page in and out of an SQL backend.
Hero Score 57
LLM GatewayRecently updated
LiteLLM
Unified Python SDK and proxy server that calls 100+ LLM providers using the OpenAI API format — drop-in router with cost tracking, fallbacks, and load balancing.
Hero Score 82
WebRecently updated
Litestar
Type-first async framework with built-in OpenAPI.
Hero Score 61
LLM OrchestrationRecently updated
LlamaIndex
Data framework focused on RAG—indexes, readers, retrievers, and workflows.
Hero Score 77
Text ChunkingRecently updated
LlamaIndex Node Parsers
Text splitting and node parsing components from LlamaIndex for chunking documents into nodes optimized for indexing and retrieval in RAG workflows.
Hero Score 72
LoggingRecently updated
Logfire
Observability platform from the Pydantic team built on OpenTelemetry, with native Python/Pydantic integration.
Hero Score 66
LoggingActive
Logging
Python's built-in logging library for structured logging.
Hero Score 73
LoggingInactive
Loguru
Delightful logging for Python with zero-config colorful output.
Hero Score 75
Document ParsingActive
Marker
PDF/image to clean Markdown converter using deep-learning models — strong on tables, equations, and complex academic layouts.
Hero Score 52
Document ParsingRecently updated
MarkItDown
Microsoft utility for converting Office docs, PDFs, images, audio, and more to Markdown — designed for LLM-friendly text extraction.
Hero Score 70
Data ValidationActive
marshmallow
Object serialization and validation library for converting complex datatypes to and from native Python types and JSON.
Hero Score 76
Data VisualizationActive
Matplotlib
Foundational Python plotting library providing low-level control over static, animated, and interactive visualizations.
Hero Score 74
MCP ServerRecently updated
MCP Python SDK
Official Python SDK from the Model Context Protocol team for building MCP servers and clients — provides both high-level (FastMCP) and low-level primitives.
Hero Score 79
Agent MemoryRecently updated
mem0
Self-improving memory layer for AI agents — stores user preferences, conversation history, and learned facts with automatic deduplication and recency scoring.
Hero Score 79
Vector DatabaseRecently updated
Milvus
Open-source, high-performance vector database and indexing engine designed for billion-scale vector similarity search and analytics.
Hero Score 77
Synthetic Data GenerationActive
Mimesis
Fast and extensible fake data generator focused on performance, rich providers, and strict typing with excellent editor support.
Hero Score 62
EmbeddingRecently updated
model2vec
Distillation framework that turns any sentence-transformer into a static word embedding model — 500x smaller and 500x faster than the teacher with minimal quality loss.
Hero Score 54
Data ValidationActive
msgspec
High-performance schema validation and serialization library for JSON, MessagePack, YAML, and TOML — written in C.
Hero Score 60
Type CheckingRecently updated
mypy
The original and canonical static type checker for Python — the PEP 484 reference implementation that defined the modern Python type-hint ecosystem.
Hero Score 87
HTTP ClientsRecently updated
Niquests
Drop-in replacement for Requests with HTTP/2, HTTP/3, async, WebSocket, and SSE support.
Hero Score 72
Code TestingActive
Nox
Flexible test automation tool configured with Python scripts (noxfile.py) instead of INI files.
Hero Score 54
Data AnalysisRecently updated
NumPy
Foundational n-dimensional array library and the bedrock of scientific Python.
Hero Score 83
Model ServingActive
Ollama
Official Python client for the Ollama local LLM runtime — pull, run, and chat with open-weight models on your machine.
Hero Score 71
LLM GatewayRecently updated
OpenAI Python SDK
Official OpenAI Python client for the OpenAI API — chat completions, embeddings, images, audio, and the new Responses + Assistants APIs.
Hero Score 91
Model ServingInactive
OpenLLM
BentoML-built CLI and Python framework for self-hosting open-weight LLMs as OpenAI-compatible API endpoints with one command.
Hero Score 58
LLM ObservabilityRecently updated
OpenLLMetry
Open-source OpenTelemetry-based observability for LLMs — vendor-neutral SDK that emits standard OTel traces consumable by any backend.
Hero Score 75
LLM ObservabilityRecently updated
Opik
Open-source LLM evaluation and observability platform from Comet — tracing, evaluation datasets, prompt playground with self-hosted and cloud options.
Hero Score 74
Document ParsingRecently updated
PaddleOCR
Multilingual OCR toolkit with text detection, recognition, layout analysis, and table extraction — built on Baidu's PaddlePaddle framework.
Hero Score 64
Data AnalysisRecently updated
Pandas
Powerful data structures and data analysis tools for Python.
Hero Score 77
AppRecently updated
Panel
Flexible framework for dashboards and complex data apps (HoloViz ecosystem).
Hero Score 64
Vector DatabaseActive
pgvector
PostgreSQL extension that adds a native vector column type and indexing for similarity search in a relational database (ANN search inside Postgres).
Hero Score 64
Vector DatabaseRecently updated
Pinecone
Fully managed vector database for high-performance similarity search, optimized for production scale and hybrid search.
Hero Score 81
Package ManagerRecently updated
pip
The official Python package installer — bundled with Python and the foundation for installing libraries from PyPI.
Hero Score 63
Package ManagerRecently updated
pipx
Installs and runs Python CLI applications in isolated environments — like pip for end-user tools rather than libraries.
Hero Score 62
Web ScrapingRecently updated
Playwright
Microsoft's modern browser automation library for Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit — async-first, with auto-waiting and powerful selectors.
Hero Score 82
Data VisualizationActive
Plotly
Interactive, browser-based plotting library — produces publication-quality charts with hover, zoom, and 3D, often used with Dash for dashboards.
Hero Score 80
Package ManagerRecently updated
Poetry
Batteries-included Python packaging & dependency manager with lockfiles, virtualenv management, building, and publishing.
Hero Score 66
Data AnalysisRecently updated
Polars
Lightning-fast DataFrame library with lazy evaluation and multi-threading.
Hero Score 60
Workflow OrchestrationRecently updated
Prefect
Pythonic workflow orchestration with lightweight flows/tasks, great developer ergonomics, and optional cloud UI.
Hero Score 77
RegexInactive
PRegEx
Programmable Regular Expressions — object-based API for constructing, combining, and managing regex patterns in Python.
Hero Score 33
Data ValidationRecently updated
Pydantic
Data validation and settings management using Python type hints — creates schemas, validates data, and serializes models.
Hero Score 88
AgentRecently updated
PydanticAI
Type-safe agent framework from the Pydantic team with structured outputs and validation-first design.
Hero Score 70
Linting And FormattingActive
Pylint
Static code analyzer for Python that checks for errors, enforces coding standards (PEP8+), and suggests refactorings.
Hero Score 71
Document ParsingActive
PyMuPDF
Fast, feature-rich PDF toolkit for text/HTML extraction, images, metadata, and page rendering with coordinates.
Hero Score 61
RegexActive
pyparsing
Text parsing and grammar framework that lets you define grammars in Python code — a readable alternative to raw regex for structured text.
Hero Score 59
Type CheckingRecently updated
pyrefly
Meta's high-performance Python type checker written in Rust — open-sourced in 2025 as the successor to Pyre, designed for monorepo-scale codebases.
Hero Score 59
Type CheckingRecently updated
pyright
Microsoft's fast static type checker for Python — the engine behind Pylance in VS Code, written in TypeScript with strong inference and IDE-first diagnostics.
Hero Score 76
Data AnalysisActive
PySpark
Python API for Apache Spark — distributed dataframes and SQL for large-scale data processing.
Hero Score 66
Code TestingActive
Pytest
Modern testing framework with powerful fixtures, plugins, and concise test syntax.
Hero Score 90
String MatchingInactive
Python-Levenshtein
Fast C extension providing Levenshtein distance and related string similarity metrics; now maintained by the RapidFuzz project.
Hero Score 56
Vector DatabaseRecently updated
Qdrant
Open-source vector search engine with filtering, payload storage, and rich Python/REST/gRPC clients — Rust-built for production scale.
Hero Score 84
LLM EvaluationActive
Ragas
Metrics and tooling for evaluating RAG systems — faithfulness, answer relevance, context precision/recall, and dataset utilities.
Hero Score 58
String MatchingActive
RapidFuzz
High-performance fuzzy string matching library with C++ speed and a clean Python API; modern replacement for fuzzywuzzy.
Hero Score 68
RegexActive
re
Built-in Python module for regular expressions — provides search, match, replace, and pattern-based text processing.
Hero Score 53
AppInactive
ReactPy
Library for building user interfaces in Python without JavaScript — component-based and reactive, inspired by ReactJS. Supports multiple backends including Flask, FastAPI, Sanic, Tornado, Django, and Jupyter.
Hero Score 51
HTTP ClientsRecently updated
Requests
Human-friendly HTTP client.
Hero Score 84
Linting And FormattingRecently updated
Ruff
Extremely fast Python linter and formatter written in Rust — consolidates rules from Flake8, isort, pyupgrade, and more.
Hero Score 81
WebRecently updated
Sanic
Async-first Python web framework focused on speed via uvloop.
Hero Score 72
Web ScrapingRecently updated
Scrapy
High-level, asynchronous web crawling & scraping framework with spiders, pipelines, middlewares, and selectors.
Hero Score 79
Synthetic Data GenerationRecently updated
SDV
Synthetic Data Vault — generates statistically realistic synthetic datasets using probabilistic and deep learning models while preserving privacy.
Hero Score 55
Data VisualizationInactive
Seaborn
High-level statistical data visualization library built on top of Matplotlib with attractive default styles.
Hero Score 59
Web ScrapingRecently updated
Selenium
The de facto standard for browser automation — drives any major browser via WebDriver protocol, mature ecosystem with grid for parallel execution.
Hero Score 74
EmbeddingRecently updated
sentence-transformers
De-facto standard Python library for computing sentence, paragraph, and image embeddings — wraps Hugging Face transformer models with a simple `encode()` API.
Hero Score 80
Browser Use AgentRecently updated
Skyvern
Production-grade browser-automation platform that uses vision LLMs to drive workflows like form filling, invoice processing, and data extraction — runs as a self-hosted or cloud server, not just a Python lib.
Hero Score 57
Browser Use AgentRecently updated
Stagehand-py
Python port of Browserbase's Stagehand — write deterministic Playwright code and reach for AI primitives like `act()`, `extract()`, and `observe()` only where you want LLM help.
Hero Score 56
WebRecently updated
Starlette
Lightweight ASGI toolkit powering many async frameworks.
Hero Score 70
AppRecently updated
Streamlit
Turn Python scripts into interactive data web apps in minutes.
Hero Score 81
LoggingInactive
Structlog
Structured logging library for Python that wraps stdlib logging with key-value context and pluggable processors.
Hero Score 78
Workflow OrchestrationRecently updated
Temporal
Durable execution platform — write long-running workflows in Python with automatic retries, state persistence, and exactly-once semantics.
Hero Score 66
String MatchingInactive
TextDistance
Unified Python library implementing 30+ string distance and similarity algorithms under one consistent API.
Hero Score 54
WebRecently updated
Tornado
Mature non-blocking web framework built for long-lived connections and websockets.
Hero Score 72
Code TestingRecently updated
Tox
Generic virtualenv management and test command-line tool that runs tests across multiple Python versions and environments.
Hero Score 65
Async RuntimeActive
Trio
Modern async concurrency library focused on structured concurrency, making async code easier to reason about and safer to write.
Hero Score 71
Type CheckingRecently updated
ty
Astral's new ultra-fast Rust-based Python type checker from the makers of ruff and uv — pre-1.0 but already widely adopted for its speed.
Hero Score 63
CLIRecently updated
Typer
Type-hint-driven CLI framework from the FastAPI author — automatic help, completion, and validation from Python type annotations.
Hero Score 79
Code TestingActive
Unittest
Built-in Python testing framework inspired by Java's JUnit — part of the standard library.
Hero Score 59
Document ParsingRecently updated
Unstructured
Toolkit for loading and partitioning documents (PDFs, HTML, PPTX, images) into clean text/chunks with metadata for downstream NLP/RAG.
Hero Score 60
HTTP ClientsRecently updated
Urllib3
Low-level, battle-tested HTTP client powering many libraries.
Hero Score 67
Package ManagerRecently updated
UV
Ultra-fast Python package & project manager (Rust) that replaces pip/virtualenv/pip-tools/pipx with a single, blazing-speed CLI.
Hero Score 67
Async RuntimeInactive
UVLoop
High-performance drop-in replacement for Python's default asyncio event loop, built on libuv for faster asynchronous I/O.
Hero Score 73
Model ServingRecently updated
vLLM
High-throughput, memory-efficient LLM inference and serving engine with PagedAttention and continuous batching — built for production GPU workloads.
Hero Score 74
Vector DatabaseRecently updated
Weaviate
Open-source vector database and semantic search engine with hybrid queries, schema, and generative search.
Hero Score 82
Agent MemoryInactive
Zep
Hosted long-term memory service for AI agents built on Graphiti — stores conversation history as a temporal knowledge graph and retrieves the most relevant context per turn.
Hero Score 60