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argon2-cffi

Secure Password Hashes for Python
PyPI GitHub Verified repo
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

argon2-cffi has 73.2M monthly downloads and 719 GitHub stars. Version 25.1.0 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2015.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2025.

It is built on top of argon2-cffi-bindings. It is used by 576 tracked packages, including jupyter-server, mitmproxy and open-webui.

GitHub topics include cffi, argon2 and password.

Downloads
Day
2.1M
Week
15.3M
Month
73.2M
Stars
719
Forks
55
Issues
2
Version
25.1.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
57
Adoption
60
Community
30
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
5 days ago
Monthly downloads
73,179,965
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
73,179,965
Stars
719
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
• Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
2,190,291
Month daily avg
2,439,332
Momentum
-10.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
• Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
398 days ago
Total releases
18
Releases/year
1.7
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
• Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
22
Monthly downloads
73,179,965
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
• Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
31
 
Issue Burden
2.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
40.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
393d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 1.4M
Windows 41.2K
macOS 20.6K

Python Versions

3.12
41.1% 522.6K
3.10
20.0% 254.9K
3.11
19.5% 247.6K
3.13
10.9% 138.8K
3.14
8.5% 107.8K

Top Countries

1. US US
970.6K
2. DE DE
92.3K
3. IE IE
64.2K
4. NL NL
63.5K
5. SG SG
51.6K
6. IN IN
27.2K
7. CA CA
16.1K
8. GB GB
15.1K
9. JP JP
14.9K
10. BR BR
14.2K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
December 10, 2015
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
5 days ago
Latest Version
25.1.0
Total Releases
18
Contributors
22
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp26 cp27 cp33 cp34 cp35 cp36 pp36 pp37 py3
Keywords
hash hashing password security
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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