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id: amplitude-analytics
version: "1.2.3"
license: MIT License
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# amplitude-analytics — The official Amplitude backend Python SDK for server-side instrumentation.

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 10.1M/mo

## What it is and what it does

Amplitude-analytics is the official Python SDK for sending analytics events from backend services to Amplitude's platform. It provides an interface to instrument server-side applications with event tracking, allowing you to capture user actions and system events for later analysis in Amplitude's dashboard. The SDK has no external runtime dependencies, making it lightweight to integrate into existing Python services.

The package is maintained by Amplitude and supports Python 3.6 through 3.10. It is positioned as a backend-only tool—the description notes that Ampli Wrapper, a separate autogenerated library, provides type-safety and input validation on top of this SDK. For basic event transmission to Amplitude, this is the core library you would use directly.

Use it for:

- Track user actions and events from a backend API or microservice to Amplitude for product analytics
- Log server-side business events for cohort analysis and funnel tracking in Amplitude
- Send system or application events from background jobs or scheduled tasks to Amplitude for monitoring
- Instrument a Python web application to capture server-side events alongside client-side tracking

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Official Amplitude backend SDK for Python that sends server-side event data to Amplitude's analytics platform for tracking and analysis.

Yes. The SDK is actively maintained, has no external dependencies, carries a permissive MIT License, and is the official tool for backend Python instrumentation with Amplitude. Install it if you are already using Amplitude and need to send events from a Python backend service.

## Install

pip install amplitude-analytics
uv add amplitude-analytics
poetry add amplitude-analytics

## Installing amplitude-analytics

Before you install: Low install friction with no runtime dependencies. Actively maintained as of 2026-05-21 with stable production status.

License in practice: MIT License permits free use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions—suitable for both open-source and commercial projects.

Quickstart:

pip install amplitude-analytics

from amplitude import Amplitude

client = Amplitude('YOUR_API_KEY')
client.track(user_id='user_id', event_type='event')

Verify before relying:

- Whether the SDK supports batching or queuing of events for high-throughput scenarios
- Whether offline event buffering or retry logic is built in
- Exact API surface and available event properties beyond user_id and event_type
- How to instantiate and configure the Amplitude client with an API key

## Package facts

- License: MIT License (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 10.1M/month (top 5,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

amplitude analytics python sdk, server-side event tracking, amplitude backend instrumentation, python analytics client, amplitude event logging, backend analytics sdk, analytics, event-tracking

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