---
id: reducto
version: "0.22.0"
license: unclear
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# reducto — Alias package — installs the official reductoai SDK. Prefer `pip install reductoai`.

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 442.5K/mo

## What it is and what it does

Reducto is a PyPI alias package that installs the official reductoai SDK. When you `pip install reducto`, it pulls in reductoai as a dependency and makes it importable as `reducto`. The package exists purely for discoverability; the description explicitly recommends installing reductoai directly for new projects. This is a thin shim maintained by the Reducto team, published automatically after each reductoai release and pinned to the exact same version.

Because this is an alias, your actual functionality depends entirely on what reductoai provides. The shim itself adds no behavior—it is a routing mechanism. If you need the Reducto SDK, you can install either package; the description suggests preferring reductoai directly to avoid an extra layer of indirection.

Use it for:

- Installing Reducto when you find it by searching for 'reducto' on PyPI instead of the canonical 'reductoai' name
- Maintaining compatibility with code that imports `reducto` rather than `reductoai`
- Quick prototyping when you want a shorter package name in your requirements file

## Worth the install?

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

This package is an alias that installs the official reductoai SDK, allowing you to import and use Reducto's Python library under the name `reducto`.

Yes, but with a caveat: this package works and is actively maintained, but the description itself recommends installing reductoai directly for new projects. Install reducto only if you specifically need the shorter name or have existing code that imports it; otherwise, use reductoai to avoid an unnecessary layer of aliasing.

## Install

pip install reducto
uv add reducto
poetry add reducto

## Installing reducto

Before you install: Low friction install with a single pure-Python wheel dependency. Repository is active with recent commits and no archived status, though the package itself is a shim and the underlying reductoai maintenance should be verified separately.

License in practice: Licensed under Apache Software License (permissive), which allows commercial and private use with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart:

pip install reducto

import reducto
# Use reducto as you would reductoai

Python 3.9 or later required; this is a pure-Python package with no compiled dependencies.

Verify before relying:

- What the underlying reductoai package actually does and its full dependency tree beyond the shim
- Whether reductoai has any system-level or compiled dependencies not visible in this shim
- Stability and maturity of the reductoai SDK itself, given this package is only a discovery alias

## Package facts

- License: not declared (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 442.5K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

reducto python sdk, reducto ai library, document processing sdk, reductoai package alias, reducto import, reducto api client, alias-package, sdk-wrapper

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