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 (9.7.2)

Source VTK-9.7.2.tar.gz fecef55df5caec6298ce190024060a90ce3bb515033c0f18968b9ab5c12bf796 Nov. 5, 2026
Data VTKLargeDataFiles-9.7.2.tar.gz aa5d055155a1563b9be1b8915c7491854dbb030dc8176bdde4eb3458bd7f401d Nov. 5, 2026
VTKLargeData-9.7.2.tar.gz 3f83d40c657ae31f796ea4c07f779bfb9c0ff909007823eecd0f62bf6c6a1ed9
VTKDataFiles-9.7.2.tar.gz 4baeaa0fb775f3f93459492f906b999c22cb6f202b1a9b7f2ec50a842493309e
VTKData-9.7.2.tar.gz de6d0d334a5cb39554ee54fdbff782ad16bfdcd48c80aea92e087c7fa14b7edb
Documentation vtkDocHtml-9.7.2.tar.gz 3926fba00a99749db4312e57153cf7a3775469cf8661c19bc50337f87d7f203b Nov. 5, 2026

git tag: 'v9.7.2'

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.