No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
backoff has 150.1M monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 2.2.1 supports Python >=3.7,<4.0, first published in 2014.
Its repository is archived and was distributed under a permissive license, last released in Oct 2022.
It is used by 1,024 tracked packages, including posthog, gcloud-aio-auth and langfuse.
GitHub topics include retry, backoff and asyncio.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
8
Popularity
69
Adoption
70
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1263 days ago
Monthly downloads
150,120,312
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
Repository is archived on GitHub — no further commits expected.
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
150,120,312
Stars
2,698
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
4,847,493
Month daily avg
5,004,010
Momentum
-3.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7,<4.0
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
1370 days ago
Total releases
37
Releases/year
3.0
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
60
Monthly downloads
150,120,312
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
68
Issue Burden
15.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
5.2
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
38.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
106d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
3.0M
Windows
28.5K
macOS
17.3K
Python Versions
3.12
32.9%
881.7K
3.11
27.1%
726.6K
3.13
17.8%
479.0K
3.10
16.0%
428.6K
3.9
6.3%
167.8K
Top Countries
1.
US
2.1M
US
2.
IE
143.3K
IE
3.
IN
102.0K
IN
4.
NL
101.4K
NL
5.
DE
86.7K
DE
6.
SG
81.7K
SG
7.
FI
39.4K
FI
8.
AU
38.6K
AU
9.
JP
36.1K
JP
10.
GB
35.3K
GB
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
1024
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- gcloud-aio-auth
- langfuse
- gql
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- wbdata
- airbyte-cdk
- apache-superset
- posthoganalytics
- runpod
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- alexapy
- neptune-scale
- gcloud-rest-auth
- singer-python
- oso-cloud
- inference-gpu
- inference-cli
- inspect-evals
- rudder-sdk-python
- inference-sdk
- benchling-api-client
- benchling-sdk
- langchain-graph-retriever
- scrapfly-sdk
- censys
- coinbase-advanced-py
- aiogithubapi
- whylogs
- urbanairship
- inference
- kanaries-track
- gpt-researcher
- tinybird-python-sdk
- amazon-braket-sdk
- customerio-cdp-analytics
- inference-models
- driftpy
- harborapi
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GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
May 13, 2014
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
3 years ago
Latest Version
2.2.1
Total Releases
37
Contributors
60
Open PRs
21
Archived
Yes
Author
Bob Green
Python Versions
3
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
Wheels
py2
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh