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bitsandbytes

Accessible large language models via k-bit quantization for PyTorch.
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Monthly downloads
3.6M
Weekly downloads
830.3K
GitHub stars
8.5K

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

Package Information

Latest Version
0.50.2
Requires Python
>=3.10
Licence
MIT
Last Release
1 month ago
First Release
August 9, 2022
Total Releases
67
Python Versions
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
80
Popularity
84
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
42 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,557,693
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
3,557,693
Stars
8,518
Stars per 1k downloads
2.39
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
118,608
Month daily avg
118,590
Momentum
+0.0%
((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
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
50 days ago
Total releases
67
Releases/year
16.0
• 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
142
Monthly downloads
3,557,693
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
83
 
Issue Burden
5.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
6.2
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
15.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 
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Downloads by OS

Linux 81.3K
Windows 11.6K
macOS 2.1K

Python Versions

3.12
37.0% 34.5K
3.10
25.7% 24.0K
3.13
24.9% 23.2K
3.11
10.5% 9.7K
3.14
1.9% 1.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
69.9K
2. SG SG
4.6K
3. NL NL
2.3K
4. CN CN
1.6K
5. DE DE
1.5K
6. JP JP
1.4K
7. IN IN
1.2K
8. CA CA
974
9. GB GB
856
10. TW TW
853

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

3
13 optional dependencies

Used By

420
View all 420 dependents

Repository details

Forks
938
Issues
48
Last Commit
1 month ago
Contributors
142
Open PRs
49
Archived
No

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
gpu optimizers optimization 8-bit quantization compression
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