Cheetah is being used in a wide variety of commercial, government, academic, personal, and open-source projects & products. Products built with Cheetah are used by many of the Fortune 500.

This page provides selected examples. It is not an exhaustive list. If you use Cheetah and wish to be added here, please send an email to the mailing list.

• One major example of commercial use are the email gateway appliances from IronPort Systems, which are used by the largest corporations and ISPs in the world. IronPort's products contain over a million lines of Python and use Cheetah plus Aquarium for their user interfaces.
• Apparently, it is the template engine used by Yelp.com and Dropbox.com
• A prominent example of government use is Incident News, which provides news, photos, and other information about spill incidents and response actions in the U.S. A larger private site is used to feed the items on the public site. The site is maintained by the Hazardous Materials Response Division, Office of Response and Restoration, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in support of U.S. Coast Guard incident response operations.
• Python and Cheetah helped AFNIC (France's top-level internet domain registry) manage over 10,000 internet domain name registration requests per minute in a landrush for the ".fr" top-level domain. Read the case study.
• The University of St. Andrews, in Scotland, uses Python + Cheetah for their student records system. St. Andrews is the 3rd oldest university in the English speaking world. See this write-up for details.
• University of Auckland CourseBuilder is based on Cheetah and has been used to build more than 100 university course web sites (total 300+ sites for surveys, presentation, documentation, student assignments, course templates, etc.). "Cheetah engine is great, it is very fast, dynamic and robust enough for our purpose."
• Oyster Hotel Reviews is a large-scale website (200,000 users per month and 3 million pageviews per month) that reviews hotels and lets you book them -- the reviews part has been around for some time, but the booking part is new. "At Oyster Hotel Reviews, we have a very simple mission: to give a comprehensive preview of the hotels you might choose to stay at, from the beds you'll sleep in to the bathrooms you'll use to the food you'll eat. Our goal is to guide our users to the hotels that will best fit their needs. We do this by extensively photographing every place we visit and writing in-depth reviews based on our firsthand experiences."
• http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/ , Cobbler is a centralized provisioning (network deployment) server for Fedora and Red Hat based Linux distributions. Cobbler uses Cheetah for rendering kickstart files, DHCP configurations, PXE configuration trees, and to power its web user interface.
• http://sysdirector.org/ SysDirector is a template driven configuration management system that allows administrators to deliver content to machines in a protocol independent fashion. Currently supported protocols include HTTP, TFTP, Puppet, and Cfengine.
• Google's Gears project uses Cheetah as part of its test reporting and code review toolchain.
• Cheetah is supported by, and used with, every major Python web development framework:
  • Django
  • Pylons
  • TurboGears
  • Paste
  • modwsgi
  • mod_python
  • CherryPy,
  • Bottle
  • Quixote
  • Webware for Python
  • Aquarium
  • Python Web Modules
  • Spyce
  • Tahchee
  • plain-old-cgi
• Cheetah is included in FreeBSD and most major Linux distributions: Gentoo, Fedora, Red Hat, Debian, and Ubuntu among others. The Cobbler boot/provisioning server for Fedora and Red Hat uses Cheetah heavily.
• CheckOut.app is a point of sale system for the Mac
• PatientWire
• Gentoo Linux
• Dentalle Inc.
• skischoolshop.com
• http://bosco.tigris.org/ A JMI-compliant template-based code generator. It reads XMI files and generates the corresponding source code, in different object-oriented languages (Java, Eiffel, Python, C++). In the case of Java, the generated code implements the JMI interfaces.
• Genna is a source code generator for UML 1.4 models
• rss2email is a tool for delivering news from RSS feeds to your email program that works under Windows and UNIX.
• Mail Trends lets you analyze and visualize your email (as extracted from an IMAP server). See this article by Gina Trapani of lifehacker.com for more.
• GNU Radio Companion (GRC) is a graphical tool for creating signal flow graphs and generating flow-graph source code.
• SickBeard is a PVR application that downloads and manages your TV shows.
• SABnzbd is a multi-platform binary newsgroup downloader.
• PyLicious is a tool for converting the database file Delicious Library produces to any form of text.
• http://klive.cpushare.com/ , Andrea Arcangeli's "Linux Kernel Live Usage Monitor"
• http://www.instasong.com/InstaSong/
• http://www.axiomfire.com/ All internal tools and live eDialogues built with Cheetah
• http://initd.org/ (makers of psycopg and pysqlite)
• http://www.asti-usa.com/ (Andrew Kuchling is currently porting their large web app to Cheetah)
• Bioinformatics Research Centre Aarhus University, Denmark
• http://github.com/jlmaccal/zam, Zipping and Assembly Method (ZAM) for Protein Folding
• http://tools.arlut.utexas.edu/DryDock/ a large web-publishing application focussed on workflow
• http://amix.dk/
• http://snurf.bdash.net.nz/ a Python-based blogging system
• Skeletonz a Python/Cheetah based CMS
• Madpy is an open source (BSD license) content management system that runs on top of Apache, mod_python, Postgresql and Cheetah.
• OpenOwl is an open-source web application framework.
• http://linuxgazette.net/
• http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/
• http://pyds.muensterland.org/
• http://faces.homeip.net/
• http://map.wirelesslondon.info/
• http://tboard.sourceforge.net/
• http://singleshot.org/
• http://invisiblecastle.com/ free gaming site, 70,000 hits a month
• http://www.python-hosting.com/
• http://www.petersblog.org/
• http://www.lococitato.com/
• http://wiki.osuosl.org/display/DEV/OJBDoc
• http://halvar.at/
• Cheetah supports internationalization and has a large non-English userbase, including:
  • http://www.chinaliveuk.org.uk (Chinese)
  • http://www.alqua.org/ (Spanish)
  • http://bank.muratordom.pl/ (Polish)
  • http://bank.muratorplus.pl/ (Polish)
  • http://ustawki.net/ game-manager for soccer fans (Polish)
  • http://www.encyclon.net/multiblast (Korean) Bioinformatics Tool
  • http://www.aufeinander.de/ (German)
  • http://www.katechese.at/ (German)
  • http://www.herschberger.at/ (German)
  • http://www.oejhw.or.at/ (German)
  • http://www.go-direct.at/ (German)
  • http://www.dmvoe.at/ (German)
  • http://seps.flibuste.net/ (French)
  • http://flibuste.net/ (French)
  • http://www.tac.cz/ (Czech)
  • http://www.cestovatel.cz/ (Czech)
  • http://www.geogr.muni.cz/ (Czech)
  • http://www.iddk.ru/ (Russian)
  • http://shop.iddk.ru/ (Russian)

• Yelp
• Dropbox
• Dell
• CNN
• NASDAQ
• Red Hat
• Ebay
• Sony
• EDS
• GAP
• Maytag
• PayPal
• Juniper
• Road Runner
• Whirlpool
• Capital One
• Liberty Mutual
• Continental Airlines
• General Foods
• Prudential Financial
• Aetna
• Dentalle Inc.
• Dentall Inc. (China)
• Hundreds of dental practices
• Imperial Optical
• Wolf Bioscience
• Hundreds of eye-care practices
• John Hopkins University
• Harvard University
• University of St. Andrews
• University of British Columbia
• Ryder
• AON
• Franklin Templeton Investments
• Manulife
• Societe Generale
• Juniper Networks
• Masco
• ADP
• Liberty Mutual
• RJ Renolds
• Charter Communications
• BNP Paribas
• L.A. Care Health Plan
• Salt Lake County
• Grand Prairie ISD
• ASTi
• LinuxGazette.com
• HFD.com