Source links are to tarballs of VTK source code that you can download and compile. Note that compared to the git master branch, the latest release option is better tested and easier to install, but it will not have the newest features being developed in the git repository.

Documentation links are to tarballs of Doxygen-generated documentation for the VTK API.

Data links are to tarballs of different example datasets for testing. VTKDataFiles* and VTKLargeDataFiles* contain data files organized into a human-friendly directory and name structure. VTKData* and VTKLargeData* are data object stores used for VTK regression testing.

VTK Python wheels are available for easy and fast VTK installation from PyPi with pip install vtk. Links to downloadable wheels are also available for each version. For VTK modules or features not compiled into the wheels such as a VTK module that depends on a third-party software package, you will need to compile VTK from source code using CMake and compiler for your platform.

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Latest Release (9.7.1)

Source VTK-9.7.1.tar.gz cae04fd355004cb916a409db79d53a208f1221e975aeacc7540ee67b148ee91a Sep. 28, 2026
Data VTKLargeDataFiles-9.7.1.tar.gz 2d4f0f1e6da20a0f1a4ea8d613728ad90530c72ce61b5e759759a01e85799157 Sep. 28, 2026
VTKDataFiles-9.7.1.tar.gz 4c603ae6706daa0afc93d7541383c113c0e0a8c453375c15d92ecc2963e73bbc
VTKLargeData-9.7.1.tar.gz f38a7fdc4a305f15dbf02b1f476bd5bc31ad02b4c1c808483b38583ca9a642ab
VTKData-9.7.1.tar.gz 030b25aeb4e852c0e64913a57a82d7d7e8dd1fd3f0f9cdfc9c27221bf03d4c13
Documentation vtkDocHtml-9.7.1.tar.gz e6262e3a80a438bf9271ab37739061b551a1861c3457390a30623bed125c6c93 Sep. 28, 2026

git tag: 'v9.7.1'

Find VTK Python wheels at: https://vtk.org/files/release/9.7. The wheel naming adheres to the Wheel Binary Package Format 1.0 (PEP 427). We provide wheels for Python 3.8-3.13 on Windows, macOS (Intel and ARM), and Linux platforms. Wheel SDK packages are also available for developers requiring header files and libraries. Wheels are also available at Pypi.org.

Previous Release (9.6.2)

Source VTK-9.6.2.tar.gz aed12cec12a9609179bf66329070266627ca64244a10856a452b2a17ffb04a1d May. 18, 2026
Data VTKLargeDataFiles-9.6.2.tar.gz 41ed83094ea31eb7b8fece3500b910e33773e48c643d2af8652c24c5840fe135 May. 18, 2026
VTKDataFiles-9.6.2.tar.gz 0d15d07cb7c5d88aee197ac4d4525d5d414e074f0ac3b55018404296f5d76d9c
VTKData-9.6.2.tar.gz 408cd6a56a59dff028707d68e76b2c408a07801785a3674b2d0ecacbd0ccb29e
VTKLargeData-9.6.2.tar.gz 3ddd29045daa96c059c8207c43a976ac24008cd6ab5441213b2aa2e2fb6e5fae
Documentation vtkDocHtml-9.6.2.tar.gz 88310377d52c0f4430d4bed387e706478f51dc3900f4ae1d25ca2c43e31db792 May. 18, 2026

git tag: 'v9.6.2'

Find VTK Python wheels at: https://vtk.org/files/release/9.6. The wheel naming adheres to the Wheel Binary Package Format 1.0 (PEP 427). We provide wheels for Python 3.8-3.13 on Windows, macOS (Intel and ARM), and Linux platforms. Wheel SDK packages are also available for developers requiring header files and libraries. Wheels are also available at Pypi.org.

Earlier Release (8.2.0)

Source VTK-8.2.0.tar.gz 8af3307da0fc2ef8cafe4a312b821111 Jan. 30, 2019
Data VTKData-8.2.0.tar.gz a6eab7bc02cee1376ee69243dde373ce Jan. 30, 2019
VTKLargeData-8.2.0.tar.gz def386ee0a3b988c52255e14af49b7b9
Documentation vtkDocHtml-8.2.0.tar.gz 909c289d404fb5902b7df20e45dee7a3 Jan. 30, 2019

git tag: 'v8.2.0'

Find VTK Python wheels at: https://vtk.org/files/release/8.2. The wheel naming adheres to the Wheel Binary Package Format 1.0 (PEP 427). We provide wheels for Python 3.8-3.13 on Windows, macOS (Intel and ARM), and Linux platforms. Wheel SDK packages are also available for developers requiring header files and libraries. Wheels are also available at Pypi.org.

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Access the Git source-code repository

VTK development is hosted in Git here: https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk

Download additional components

Nightly Documentation Archive – The documentation for the nightly build of VTK is also available as a gzipped tarball: vtkNightlyDocHtml.tar.gz. This is useful if you would like your own local copy of the VTK documentation without spending the extra time and effort to build it yourself.

MPEG2 Source Code – Download a CMake-ified source tree of the patented MPEG2 library with the different flavors of line endings from one of these links: Windows: vtkmpeg2encode.zip or Unix/Mac: vtkmpeg2encode.tar.gz.

FFMPEG Source Code – The FFMPEG multimedia library source code can be obtained either from the sourceforge web site or by downloading ffmpeg_source.tar.gz. The tar file also contains instructions on how to link Paraview to the library.

Questions / Problems

For problems or questions, we recommend that you join to the VTK discourse, and post your questions there. Or, send an email to: kitware@kitware.com.