# Alpaca-trade-api 2.3.0 vs alpaca-py 0.5.4

**URL:** https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/alpaca-trade-api-2-3-0-vs-alpaca-py-0-5-4/10448
**Category:** Getting Started with Alpaca
**Created:** [August 26, 2022, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/alpaca-trade-api-2-3-0-vs-alpaca-py-0-5-4/10448 "2022-08-26T16:08:16Z")
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### Author: ![Dvir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecc23a/32.png) [@Dvir](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/Dvir)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2022, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/alpaca-trade-api-2-3-0-vs-alpaca-py-0-5-4/10448/1 "2022-08-26T16:08:16Z")

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What is the difference between alpaca-trade-api, alpaca-py?  
What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

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### Author: ![Dvir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecc23a/32.png) [@Dvir](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/Dvir)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2022, 1:57am UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/alpaca-trade-api-2-3-0-vs-alpaca-py-0-5-4/10448/2 "2022-09-03T01:57:15Z")

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who can help?  
is someone know?

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### Author: ![jabowery](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.alpaca.markets/jabowery/32/1495_2.png) [@jabowery](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/jabowery)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2023, 3:51pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/alpaca-trade-api-2-3-0-vs-alpaca-py-0-5-4/10448/3 "2023-02-07T15:51:46Z")

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I have to sardonically laugh as my app just got broken by upgrading to a supported version of python and the response from alpaca is to upgrade my app to use alpaca-py from alpaca-trade-api. When I searched for how to do such a conversion, I found was this question that has received no responses.