Today, we’re excited to announce pyx: a Python-native package registry. It’s the first paid, hosted service in the Astral platform, our next-generation infrastructure for the Python ecosystem.
pyx is live with our early partners, including Ramp, Intercom, and fal. If you're interested in a next-generation Python experience for your team, get in touch today: https://astral.sh/pyx
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The amount of Python code in the world is increasing at an astounding rate, and our tools (Ruff, uv, and soon, ty) are powering those workloads. Our open source tools have seen unprecedented adoption, with over 100 million installs per month across the Astral toolchain and uv powering over 500 million requests per day.
Our goal is to make Python the most productive programming ecosystem on Earth, and our open source tools have been driven by that unifying vision. But there are limits to what we can do with client-side tools alone. We want to expand the scope of problems we can solve — beyond command-line tools and into our own end-to-end infrastructure.
We’re building a set of unified, hosted services that make Python fast, easy, and robust, extending the work and principles we've built upon in our open source toolchain. We're starting with pyx, a Python-native package registry. It's the first piece of the Astral platform: our next-generation infrastructure for the Python ecosystem.
We think of pyx as an optimized backend for uv — it’s a package registry, but it also solves problems that go beyond the scope of a traditional "package registry”, making your uv experience faster, more secure, and even GPU-aware, both for private packages and public sources like PyPI and the PyTorch index.
When used with uv, pyx should feel like the same leap in developer experience that you felt when migrating to uv in the first place. By vertically integrating our client (uv) and server (pyx), we can solve so many more of our users’ problems.
Beyond the product itself, pyx is also an instantiation of our strategy: our tools (uv, Ruff, ty, etc.) remain free, open source, and permissively licensed — forever. Nothing changes there. The Astral platform provides paid, hosted services (like pyx) that build on that foundation and reinvent what’s possible for Python teams in speed, security, and scale.
pyx is live in Beta with our early partners, including Ramp, Intercom, and fal. If you’re interested in a next-generation Python experience for your team, get in touch today: https://astral.sh/pyx
Read the full blog post for more on our vision → https://lnkd.in/eKTRSzdC