This is intended to find the most popular (as determined by download count) pytest plugins, as plugins usually have “pytest” in the name.
Counts are the number of downloads over 30 days.

The list

Data last updated: 2025-05-01 06:34:33

# Package Downloads Summary
1 pytest-cov 54,505,251 pytest plugin for measuring coverage. (Test & Code episode pytest-cov : The pytest plugin for measuring coverage)
2 pytest-xdist 37,648,801 pytest xdist plugin for distributed testing, most importantly across multiple CPUs
3 pytest-asyncio 33,013,965 pytest support for asyncio
4 pytest-mock 29,682,492 Thin-wrapper around the mock package for easier use with pytest (Test & Code episode pytest-mock : Mocking in pytest)
5 pytest-rerunfailures 17,791,520 pytest plugin to re-run tests to eliminate flaky failures
6 hypothesis 13,100,509 A library for property-based testing (Includes a small pytest plugin.)
7 pytest-timeout 11,949,377 pytest plugin to abort hanging tests
8 pytest-metadata 10,692,694 pytest plugin for test session metadata
9 pytest-html 7,823,783 pytest plugin for generating HTML reports (Test & Code episode pytest-html - a plugin that generates HTML reports for test results)
10 pytest-random-order 6,081,754 Randomise the order in which pytest tests are run with some control over the randomness
11 pytest-env 5,536,333 pytest plugin that allows you to add environment variables.
12 pytest-localserver 5,183,478 pytest plugin to test server connections locally.
13 pytest-django 4,717,436 A Django plugin for pytest.
14 pytest-split 4,525,633 pytest plugin which splits the test suite to equally sized sub suites based on test execution time.
15 pytest-custom-exit-code 4,418,062 Exit pytest test session with custom exit code in different scenarios
16 pytest-instafail 3,956,616 pytest plugin to show failures instantly
17 pytest-icdiff 3,922,063 use icdiff for better error messages in pytest assertions
18 pytest-unordered 3,766,873 Test equality of unordered collections in pytest
19 pytest-repeat 2,932,208 pytest plugin for repeating tests (Test & Code episode pytest-repeat - works fine on Python 3.14)
20 pytest-randomly 2,715,448 pytest plugin to randomly order tests and control random.seed.
21 pytest-json-report 2,671,637 A pytest plugin to report test results as JSON files (Seems no longer supported, but leaving here to recommend pytest-json-report-wip)
22 allure-pytest 2,476,840 Allure pytest integration
23 pytest-timeouts 2,461,311 Linux-only pytest plugin to control durations of various test case execution phases
24 pytest-order 2,274,673 pytest plugin to run your tests in a specific order
25 pytest-sugar 2,269,882 pytest-sugar is a plugin for pytest that changes the default look and feel of pytest (e.g. progressbar, show tests that fail instantly).
26 syrupy 2,236,856 pytest Snapshot Test Utility
27 pytest-benchmark 2,233,738 A pytest fixture for benchmarking code. It will group the tests into rounds that are calibrated to the chosen timer.
28 pytest-socket 2,196,147 pytest Plugin to disable socket calls during tests
29 pytest-subtests 2,138,684 unittest subTest() support and subtests fixture (Test & Code episode Subtests in Python with unittest and pytest)
30 pytest-base-url 2,101,492 pytest plugin for URL based testing
31 pytest-ordering 1,905,046 pytest plugin to run your tests in a specific order
32 pytest-playwright 1,721,600 A pytest wrapper with fixtures for Playwright to automate web browsers
33 pytest-httpx 1,462,119 Send responses to httpx.
34 pytest-dotenv 1,456,440 A py.test plugin that parses environment files before running tests
35 pytest-check 1,259,079 A pytest plugin that allows multiple failures per test.
36 pytest-postgresql 1,243,212 Postgresql fixtures and fixture factories for pytest.
37 pytest-assume 1,222,113 A pytest plugin that allows multiple failures per test
38 pytest-httpserver 1,222,035 pytest-httpserver is a httpserver for pytest
39 pytest-bdd 1,183,163 BDD for pytest
40 pytest-aiohttp 1,065,268 pytest plugin for aiohttp support
41 pytest-dependency 921,320 Manage dependencies of tests
42 pytest-memray 910,319 A simple plugin to use with pytest
43 pytest-profiling 862,084 Profiling plugin for py.test
44 pytest-retry 850,617 Adds the ability to retry flaky tests in CI environments
45 pytest-lazy-fixture 765,895 It helps to use fixtures in pytest.mark.parametrize
46 pytest-recording 748,677 A pytest plugin powered by VCR.py to record and replay HTTP traffic
47 pytest-freezegun 741,953 Wrap tests with fixtures in freeze_time
48 pytest-github-actions-annotate-failures 651,260 pytest plugin to annotate failed tests with a workflow command for GitHub Actions
49 pytest-snapshot 640,402 A plugin for snapshot testing with pytest.
50 pytest-azurepipelines 617,765 Formatting PyTest output for Azure Pipelines UI
51 pytest-factoryboy 611,985 Factory Boy support for pytest.
52 pytest-vcr 568,403 Plugin for managing VCR.py cassettes
53 pytest-docker 526,258 Simple pytest fixtures for Docker and Docker Compose based tests
54 pytest-celery 523,710 pytest plugin for Celery
55 pytest-reportlog 505,272 Replacement for the –resultlog option, focused in simplicity and extensibility
56 pytest-ansible 489,622 Plugin for pytest to simplify calling ansible modules from tests or fixtures
57 pytest-opentelemetry 480,573 A pytest plugin for instrumenting test runs via OpenTelemetry
58 pytest-archon 469,595 Rule your architecture like a real developer
59 pytest-find-dependencies 464,840 A pytest plugin to find dependencies between tests
60 pytest-nunit 458,068 A pytest plugin for generating NUnit3 test result XML output
61 pytest-pretty 444,575 pytest plugin for printing summary data as I want it
62 pytest-flask 441,151 A set of py.test fixtures to test Flask applications.
63 pytest-datadir 436,692 pytest plugin for test data directories and files
64 pytest-clarity 412,832 A plugin providing an alternative, colourful diff output for failing assertions.
65 pytest-docker-tools 411,096 Docker integration tests for pytest
66 pytest-testinfra 406,191 Test infrastructures
67 pytest-cases 402,118 Separate test code from test cases in pytest.
68 pytest-deadfixtures 401,306 A simple plugin to list unused fixtures in pytest
69 pytest-watch 396,795 Local continuous test runner with pytest and watchdog.
70 pytest-testmon 388,483 selects tests affected by changed files and methods
71 pytest-flakefinder 375,485 Runs tests multiple times to expose flakiness.
72 pytest-freezer 353,215 pytest plugin providing a fixture interface for spulec/freezegun
73 pytest-mypy 345,724 A pytest Plugin for Mypy
74 pytest-explicit 334,144 A pytest plugin to ignore certain marked tests by default
75 pytest-reportportal 328,880 Agent for Reporting results of tests to the Report Portal
76 pytest-watcher 323,081 Automatically rerun your tests on file modifications
77 pytest-homeassistant-custom-component 321,790 Experimental package to automatically extract test plugins for Home Assistant custom components
78 pytest-examples 316,729 pytest plugin for testing examples in docstrings and markdown files.
79 pytest-codspeed 310,105 pytest plugin to create CodSpeed benchmarks
80 pytest-mergify 307,695 pytest plugin for Mergify
81 pytest-flake8 299,680 pytest plugin to check FLAKE8 requirements
82 pytest-parametrized 278,276 pytest decorator for parametrizing tests with default iterables.
83 pytest-doctestplus 260,223 pytest plugin with advanced doctest features.
84 pytest-pudb 258,004 pytest PuDB debugger integration
85 pytest-variables 246,385 pytest plugin for providing variables to tests/fixtures
86 pytest-qt 245,034 pytest support for PyQt and PySide applications
87 pytest-alembic 229,080 A pytest plugin for verifying alembic migrations.
88 pytest-pylint 222,065 pytest plugin to check source code with pylint
89 pytest-spark 222,043 pytest plugin to run the tests with support of pyspark.
90 pytest-selenium 218,985 pytest plugin for Selenium
91 pytest-describe 205,524 Describe-style plugin for pytest
92 pytest-reraise 199,680 Make multi-threaded pytest test cases fail when they should
93 pytest-structlog 197,314 Structured logging assertions
94 pytest-subprocess 190,938 A plugin to fake subprocess for pytest
95 pytest-lazy-fixtures 190,297 Allows you to use fixtures in @pytest.mark.parametrize.
96 pylint-pytest 188,710 A Pylint plugin to suppress pytest-related false positives.
97 pytest-test-groups 178,373 A pytest plugin for running a subset of your tests by splitting them in to equally sized groups.
98 pytest-race 173,184 Race conditions tester for pytest
99 pytest-timestamper 172,783 pytest plugin to add a timestamp prefix to the pytest output
100 pytest-remotedata 172,064 pytest plugin for controlling remote data access.
101 pytest-md-report 171,992 A pytest plugin to generate test outcomes reports with markdown table format. (Test & Code episode pytest-md and pytest-md-report: Markdown reports for pytest)
102 pytest-mock-resources 171,559 A pytest plugin for easily instantiating reproducible mock resources.
103 pytest-regressions 168,562 Easy to use fixtures to write regression tests.
104 pytest-sftpserver 168,507 py.test plugin to locally test sftp server connections.
105 pytest-insta 165,383 A practical snapshot testing plugin for pytest
106 pytest-helpers-namespace 161,120 pytest Helpers Namespace Plugin
107 pytest-filter-subpackage 155,543 pytest plugin for filtering based on sub-packages
108 pytest-cpp 151,938 Use pytest’s runner to discover and execute C++ tests
109 pytest-incremental 151,616 an incremental test runner (pytest plugin)
110 flake8-pytest-style 147,847 A flake8 plugin checking common style issues or inconsistencies with pytest-based tests.
111 pytest-xprocess 145,800 A pytest plugin for managing processes across test runs.
112 pytest-cache 139,037 pytest plugin with mechanisms for caching across test runs
113 pytest-reporter 138,531 Generate pytest reports with templates
114 pytest-trio 138,154 pytest plugin for trio
115 pytest-csv 134,291 CSV output for pytest.
116 pytest-operator 131,294 Fixtures for Operators
117 pytest-mpl 126,817 pytest plugin to help with testing figures output from Matplotlib
118 pytest-picked 125,409 Run the tests related to the changed files
119 pytest-redis 122,898 Redis fixtures and fixture factories for pytest.
120 pytest-harvest 122,883 Store data created during your pytest tests execution, and retrieve it at the end of the session, e.g. for applicative benchmarking purposes.
121 pytest-embedded 121,271 A pytest plugin that designed for embedded testing.
122 pytest-embedded-serial-esp 120,576 Make pytest-embedded plugin work with Espressif target boards.
123 pytest-ruff 120,455 pytest plugin to check ruff requirements.
124 pytest-embedded-idf 119,657 Make pytest-embedded plugin work with ESP-IDF.
125 pytest-shutil 119,245 A goodie-bag of unix shell and environment tools for py.test
126 pytest-embedded-serial 119,130 Make pytest-embedded plugin work with Serial.
127 pytest-slack 116,746 pytest to Slack reporting plugin
128 pytest-embedded-qemu 113,854 Make pytest-embedded plugin work with QEMU.
129 pytest-arraydiff 112,057 pytest plugin to help with comparing array output from tests
130 pytest-fixture-config 111,163 Fixture configuration utils for py.test
131 pytest-durations 110,410 pytest plugin reporting fixtures and test functions execution time.
132 pytest-parametrization 108,257 Simpler PyTest parametrization
133 pytest-emoji 107,774 A pytest plugin that adds emojis to your test result report
134 pytest-xvfb 106,505 A pytest plugin to run Xvfb (or Xephyr/Xvnc) for tests.
135 pytest-black 105,131 A pytest plugin to enable format checking with black
136 pytest-tornasync 104,988 py.test plugin for testing Python 3.5+ Tornado code
137 pytest-jira-xray 102,482 pytest plugin to integrate tests with JIRA XRAY
138 pytest-grpc 101,689 pytest plugin for grpc
139 pytest-isort 101,407 py.test plugin to check import ordering using isort
140 pytest-md 101,379 Plugin for generating Markdown reports for pytest results (Test & Code episode pytest-md and pytest-md-report: Markdown reports for pytest)
141 pytest-mypy-plugins 101,300 pytest plugin for writing tests for mypy plugins
142 pytest-depends 100,661 Tests that depend on other tests
143 pytest-astropy 100,117 Meta-package containing dependencies for testing
144 pytest-logger 99,996 Plugin configuring handlers for loggers from Python logging module.
145 pytest-markdown-docs 99,435 Run markdown code fences through pytest
146 pytest-reporter-html1 99,332 A basic HTML report template for pytest
147 pytest-astropy-header 99,151 pytest plugin to add diagnostic information to the header of the test output
148 pytest-embedded-jtag 97,805 Make pytest-embedded plugin work with JTAG.
149 pytest-testrail 97,095 pytest plugin for creating TestRail runs and adding results
150 pytest-mysql 93,821 MySQL process and client fixtures for pytest
151 pytest-json 90,877 Generate JSON test reports
152 pytest-integration 90,485 Organizing pytests by integration or not
153 pytest-runtime-xfail 88,306 Call runtime_xfail() to mark running test as xfail.
154 pytest-func-cov 85,751 pytest plugin for measuring function coverage
155 pytest-pytestrail 85,716 pytest plugin for interaction with TestRail
156 qase-pytest 85,608 Qase pytest Plugin for Qase TestOps and Qase Report
157 pytest-regex 84,802 Select pytest tests with regular expressions
158 pytest-mpi 79,709 pytest plugin to collect information from tests
159 pytest-rng 79,342 Fixtures for seeding tests and making randomness reproducible
160 pytest-console-scripts 78,868 pytest plugin for testing console scripts
161 pytest-fail-slow 71,826 Fail tests that take too long to run
162 pytest-html-reporter 67,912 Generates a static html report based on pytest framework
163 pytest-only 64,076 Use @pytest.mark.only to run a single test
164 pytest-circleci-parallelized 60,187 Parallelize pytest across CircleCI workers.
165 pytest-eventlet 59,290 Applies eventlet monkey-patch as a pytest plugin.
166 pytest-codecov 58,000 pytest plugin for uploading pytest-cov results to codecov.io
167 pytest-split-tests 56,889 A pytest plugin for running a subset of your tests by splitting them in to equally sized groups. Forked from Mark Adams’ original project pytest-test-groups.
168 pytest-tinybird 56,404 A pytest plugin to report test results to tinybird
169 allure-pytest-bdd 55,402 Allure pytest-bdd integration
170 pytest-responses 54,579 py.test integration for responses
171 pytest-monitor 52,219 pytest plugin for analyzing resource usage.
172 pytest-pep8 51,905 pytest plugin to check PEP8 requirements
173 pytest-html-merger 51,108 pytest HTML reports merging utility
174 pytest-portion 50,255 Select a portion of the collected tests
175 pytest-spec 50,089 Library pytest-spec is a pytest plugin to display test execution output like a SPECIFICATION.
176 pytest-twisted 50,084 A twisted plugin for pytest.
177 allure-pytest-default-results 50,046 Generate default “unknown” results to show in Allure Report if test case does not run
178 pytest-cmake 49,701 Provide CMake module for pytest
179 pytest-xdist-worker-stats 49,202 A pytest plugin to list worker statistics after a xdist run.
180 pytest-seleniumbase 48,324 A complete web automation framework for end-to-end testing.
181 pytest-datafiles 47,883 py.test plugin to create a ’tmp_path’ containing predefined files/directories.
182 pytest-mockito 47,284 Base fixtures for mockito
183 pytest-asyncio-cooperative 47,102 Run all your asynchronous tests cooperatively.
184 pytest-aio 47,091 pytest plugin for testing async python code
185 pytest-rabbitmq 45,800 RabbitMQ process and client fixtures for pytest
186 pytest-enabler 44,736 Enable installed pytest plugins
187 pytest-loop 44,598 pytest plugin for looping tests
188 pytest-error-for-skips 43,719 pytest plugin to treat skipped tests a test failure
189 pytest-codeblocks 43,118 Test code blocks in your READMEs
190 pytest-loguru 42,047 pytest Loguru
191 pytest-faker 41,893 Faker integration with the pytest framework.
192 pytest-skip-slow 41,116 A pytest plugin to skip @pytest.mark.slow tests by default.
193 pytest-checkdocs 40,185 check the README when running tests
194 pytest-cookies 40,104 The pytest plugin for your Cookiecutter templates. 🍪
195 pytest-tap 39,978 Test Anything Protocol (TAP) reporting plugin for pytest
196 pytest-flakes 39,604 pytest plugin to check source code with pyflakes
197 pytest-print 39,557 pytest-print adds the printer fixture you can use to print messages to the user (directly to the pytest runner, not stdout)
198 pytest-schema 39,057 👍 Validate return values against a schema-like object in testing
199 pytest-testconfig 38,962 Test configuration plugin for pytest.
200 pytest-jupyter 38,837 A pytest plugin for testing Jupyter libraries and extensions.

Current process is based on hugovk’s Top PyPI Packages. Package data is filtered for “pytest”.
There’s also a filter for deprecated and unmaintained plugins.
See source code.

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