Queue Python Packages

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.

huey

a little task queue for python

svix

The open source and enterprise-ready webhooks service 🦀

bullmq

BullMQ - Message Queue and Batch processing for NodeJS, Python, .NET, Elixir, Rust and PHP based on Redis or PostgreSQL

janus

Thread-safe asyncio-aware queue for Python

arq

Fast job queuing and RPC in python with asyncio and redis.

culsans

Thread-safe async-aware queue for Python

pgqueuer

PostgreSQL-backed background job and task queue for Python.

saq

Simple Async Queues

django-background-tasks

A database-backed work queue for Django

taskiq-aio-sqs

SQS/S3 Broker for TaskIQ using Aiobotocore

pq

A PostgreSQL job queueing system

flask-melodramatiq

A Flask extension that adds support for the Dramatiq task processing library

tasktiger

Python task queue using Redis

repid

Repid is a simple, fast, and extensible async task queue framework, with built-in AsyncAPI 3.0 schema generation

greenstalk

A Python client for the beanstalkd work queue

django-tasks-redis

A Redis/Valkey-backed task queue backend for Django 6.0's built-in task framework.

steady-queue

A DB-backed task backend for Django

pytest-streaming

PyTest plugin for enabling stream-lined testing of pubsub, pulsar, kafka, and nats

matador-dashboard

Live server-rendered dashboard for toro queues: watch queues, inspect and retry jobs. FastAPI + HTMX + Tailwind, no SPA, no build step. pip install matador-dashboard

toro-queue

Async-first, Redis-backed job queue for Python: atomic Lua state transitions, at-least-once delivery, fully typed asyncio API. pip install toro-queue

localqueue

📦 Persistent, multiprocess-safe local queue for Python, backed by SQLite and Rust — no server required.

tarsk

A Python task queue whose workers hold a memory ceiling you set — without losing a task. Rust supervisor, Redis or Postgres.

slick-queue-py

Lock-free MPMC queue with C++ interoperability via shared memory