Kite for Spyder
Kite integrates with Spyder for a superior autocomplete experience while coding in Python. From Line-of-Code Completions to Intelligent Snippets, Kite helps you code faster while staying in flow.

Start coding faster.
Enable Kite in Spyder.
Enable Kite in Spyder.
Benefit from deep learning while you code
1Get more and better completions for SciPy libraries.
Jedi: Cannot resolve for Matplotlib

Kite: Provides multi-token completions

2See more completions ranked intelligently.
Jedi: Alphabetical ranking

Kite: Relevance ranking

3Jump further ahead by completing full function calls.
Jedi: Single-token completions

Kite: Line-of-Code Completions
Kite is free to use.

Kite delivers better completions, more often
% of expressions having at least one completion
Source: Code analysis completed using the django-basic-apps repo

Get the updated autocomplete for Spyder
Spyder + Jedi | Spyder + Kite | |
Completions seen by user | 57% of expressions | 87-95% of expressions |
Intelligent Snippets | No | Yes, provides snippets as you type |
Line-of-Code Completions | No | Yes, completes multiple tokens instantly |
Ranked completions | Sometimes | Yes, ranked by relevance, not the alphabet |
Easy to install and configure | No | Yes |
Interactive documentation tool | No | Yes, Kite Copilot desktop app |
Docs for numerics libraries | No | Yes |
Latency | High | Low |
Kite runs locally.
Your code is private.

Easily access over 100,000 Python docs
Check out the Kite Copilot app
- Kite gives you more docs at the click of a keyboard
shortcut while you’re coding
More detail across more docs
- Get the top attributes for types
- See function signatures and example call patterns
- Find all the top members for modules
How Others Used This
- Browse hints based on how other professionals have

Basics
Supported Versions
- Spyder 4
Supported OS
- macOS 10.12 and higher
- Windows 7 and higher
- Linux 64-bit x86 systems
Supported Languages
- Python
More info
- View Kite for Spyder help docs.
- Need more help? Visit our Github repo.
Kite is easy to install for Spyder.
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