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PyCQA

bandit

Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code.
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Monthly downloads
24.7M
Weekly downloads
6.4M
GitHub stars
8.3K

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
1.9.4
Requires Python
>=3.10
Licence
Apache-2.0
Last Release
7 months ago
Author
PyCQA
First Release
March 23, 2015
Total Releases
50
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details

The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
84
Adoption
90
Community
80
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
24 days ago
Monthly downloads
24,747,275
• 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
24,747,275
Stars
8,304
Stars per 1k downloads
0.34
• 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
911,635
Month daily avg
824,909
Momentum
+10.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
• Legacy
Supports 3.10 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
Apache-2.0
• 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
233 days ago
Total releases
50
Releases/year
4.3
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
182
Monthly downloads
24,747,275
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
82
 
Issue Burden
23.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
6.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
21.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
208d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 
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Downloads by OS

Linux 543.3K
Windows 8.8K
macOS 6.7K

Python Versions

3.12
44.8% 237.0K
3.13
23.0% 121.5K
3.11
17.0% 89.8K
3.14
12.5% 66.0K
3.10
2.8% 15.1K

Top Countries

1. US US
451.9K
2. DE DE
23.8K
3. NL NL
12.1K
4. GB GB
9.4K
5. IE IE
7.1K
6. JP JP
6.7K
7. SE SE
4.8K
8. CA CA
4.7K
9. FR FR
4.3K
10. SG SG
3.5K

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

4
13 optional dependencies

Used By

213
View all 213 dependents

Repository details

Forks
852
Issues
197
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Contributors
182
Open PRs
65
Archived
No

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Sources and methodology