# Astral

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/astral
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/astral.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/astral/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://astral.sh
- **Slug:** astral
- **Categories:** developer-tools

## Overview

- **Tagline:** Extremely fast performance for Python tooling, built in Rust, offering a unified and futuristic approach to Python development workflows.
Source: Brand's website (https://astral.sh) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** Astral builds high-performance developer tools for the Python ecosystem, starting with Ruff, an extremely fast Python linter, and ty, a fast Python type checker and language server.
Source: Brand's website (https://astral.sh) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:**
  - Ruff (Python linter)
  - ty (Python type checker and language server)
  - uv (Python package installer and resolver).
Source: Brand's website (https://astral.sh) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Open-source
Source: Brand's website (https://astral.sh) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Python developers, open-source projects, organizations using Python.
Source: Brand's website (https://astral.sh) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - Autoflake
  - Flake8
  - Pyflakes
  - pycodestyle
  - Pylint
  - mypy
  - Pyright
  - Pylance
Source: Brand's website (https://astral.sh) · 2026-10-04

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