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bertopic

Leveraging BERT and c-TF-IDF to create easily interpretable topics.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

bertopic has 467K monthly downloads and 8K GitHub stars. Version 0.17.4 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2020.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Dec 2025.

It is built on top of hdbscan, llvmlite and numpy. It is used by 43 tracked packages, including bertrend, econsimulacra and berteley.

GitHub topics include bert, transformers and topic-modeling.

Downloads
Day
11.7K
Week
96.7K
Month
467.2K
Stars
7.7K
Forks
906
Issues
421
Version
0.17.4

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
84
Adoption
56
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
55 days ago
Monthly downloads
467,160
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
467,160
Stars
7,721
Stars per 1k downloads
16.53
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
13,811
Month daily avg
15,572
Momentum
-11.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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 License
• 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
216 days ago
Total releases
45
Releases/year
7.8
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
93
Monthly downloads
467,160
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
86
 
Issue Burden
54.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
51.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
10.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
160d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 6.9K
Windows 222
macOS 203

Python Versions

3.12
49.9% 3.5K
3.11
23.4% 1.7K
3.10
12.3% 875
3.13
12.3% 870
3.14
2.1% 146

Top Countries

1. US US
6.2K
2. SG SG
213
3. NL NL
206
4. IE IE
129
5. DE DE
127
6. IN IN
98
7. CN CN
70
8. GB GB
61
9. CA CA
42
10. FR FR
41
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
September 24, 2020
Last Release
7 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
0.17.4
Total Releases
45
Contributors
93
Open PRs
24
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
nlp bert topic modeling embeddings
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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