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Top 23 Python Queue Projects
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Project mention: Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-28
For an even lighter system than Celery, I'm a big fan of
https://python-rq.org/
It's super low on the dependencies and integrates nicely as a library into python applications. It's very bare bones.
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boltons
🔩 Like builtins, but boltons. 250+ constructs, recipes, and snippets which extend (and rely on nothing but) the Python standard library. Nothing like Michael Bolton.
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Project mention: Celery + Redis at Scale: Designing a Reliable and Efficient Task Queue in Production | dev.to | 2026-04-26
One more practical point from my experience: sometimes the problem is not in your code or even in your configuration, but in Celery itself or in lower-level libraries such as Kombu (for example https://github.com/celery/kombu/issues/2258).
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Project mention: Show HN: PgQueuer v1.0 – Python job queue using only PostgreSQ | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-11
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Project mention: janus VS culsans - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/aio-libs/janus | 2025-12-20
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django-q2
A multiprocessing distributed task queue for Django. Django Q2 is a fork of Django Q. Big thanks to Ilan Steemers for starting this project. Unfortunately, development has stalled since June 2021. Django Q2 is the new updated version of Django Q, with dependencies updates, docs updates and several bug fixes. Original repository: https://github.com/Koed00/django-q
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Project mention: Show HN: Oban for Python (Job Orchestration Framework) | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-21
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Show HN: PgQueuer – A PostgreSQL job queue that works without PostgreSQL
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Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Queue projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | rq | 10,650 |
| 2 | boltons | 6,896 |
| 3 | huey | 5,973 |
| 4 | kombu | 3,120 |
| 5 | arq | 2,949 |
| 6 | pgqueuer | 1,488 |
| 7 | tasktiger | 1,465 |
| 8 | procrastinate | 1,301 |
| 9 | Streamz | 1,296 |
| 10 | janus | 962 |
| 11 | mrq | 897 |
| 12 | saq | 861 |
| 13 | django-background-tasks | 623 |
| 14 | django-q2 | 616 |
| 15 | wakaq | 596 |
| 16 | KQ | 574 |
| 17 | django_dramatiq | 386 |
| 18 | pq | 379 |
| 19 | oban-py | 275 |
| 20 | Flask-RQ2 | 239 |
| 21 | think-async | 233 |
| 22 | litequeue | 226 |
| 23 | rele | 204 |
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