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bcrypt

Modern(-ish) password hashing for your software and your servers
PyPI GitHub Verified repo
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

bcrypt has 200.5M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 5.0.0 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2013.

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

It is used by 1,341 tracked packages, including paramiko, chromadb and mitmproxy.

Downloads
Day
6.4M
Week
44.8M
Month
200.5M
Stars
1.5K
Forks
210
Issues
5
Version
5.0.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
67
Adoption
70
Community
50
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2 days ago
Monthly downloads
200,472,944
• 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
200,472,944
Stars
1,486
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
6,397,767
Month daily avg
6,682,431
Momentum
-4.3%
((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
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
284 days ago
Total releases
28
Releases/year
2.1
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
46
Monthly downloads
200,472,944
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
52
 
Issue Burden
3.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
21.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
281d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 4.4M
Windows 78.1K
macOS 27.7K

Python Versions

3.12
34.7% 1.4M
3.11
32.8% 1.3M
3.10
19.2% 770.3K
3.13
7.7% 311.1K
3.9
5.6% 223.8K

Top Countries

1. US US
3.0M
2. IE IE
215.3K
3. DE DE
156.5K
4. NL NL
154.7K
5. IN IN
128.2K
6. SG SG
93.1K
7. AU AU
71.0K
8. JP JP
63.3K
9. CA CA
60.1K
10. BR BR
56.6K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0
First Release
May 11, 2013
Last Release
9 months ago
Last Commit
2 days ago
Latest Version
5.0.0
Total Releases
28
Contributors
46
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp26 cp27 cp313 cp314 cp32 cp33 cp34 cp35 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39 pp310 pp311
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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