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azure-identity

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azure-identity has 224.1M monthly downloads and 6K GitHub stars. Version 1.25.3 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2019.

It is actively maintained, last released in Mar 2026.

It is built on top of azure-core, cryptography and msal. It is used by 1,020 tracked packages, including azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter, azure-kusto-data and adlfs.

GitHub topics include azure and azure-sdk.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (Azure/azure-sdk-for-python) with 20 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
8.0M
Week
53.4M
Month
224.1M
Stars
5.6K
Forks
3.3K
Issues
832
Version
1.25.3

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
82
Adoption
80
Community
100
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
0 days ago
Monthly downloads
224,136,854
• 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
224,136,854
Stars
5,566
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
• 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
7,625,654
Month daily avg
7,471,228
Momentum
+2.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a license.
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
116 days ago
Total releases
83
Releases/year
11.8
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
3,688
Monthly downloads
224,136,854
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
80
 
Issue Burden
149.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
111.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
116d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 7.9M
Windows 99.7K
macOS 8.7K

Python Versions

3.12
47.0% 3.7M
3.11
18.0% 1.4M
3.10
15.3% 1.2M
3.13
13.3% 1.0M
3.14
6.3% 493.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
6.7M
2. NL NL
509.5K
3. IE IE
214.2K
4. AU AU
57.3K
5. IN IN
53.7K
6. GB GB
51.2K
7. SE SE
51.2K
8. CA CA
50.8K
9. SG SG
50.5K
10. BR BR
46.6K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
Unknown
First Release
June 28, 2019
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
13 hr ago
Latest Version
1.25.3
Total Releases
83
Contributors
3,688
Open PRs
347
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
azure azure sdk
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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