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bitsandbytes

Accessible large language models via k-bit quantization for PyTorch.
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
220.1K
Week
1.5M
Month
6.4M
Stars
8.2K
Forks
851
Issues
31
Version
0.49.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
84
Adoption
70
Community
80
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
7 days ago
Monthly downloads
6,439,308
• 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
6,439,308
Stars
8,204
Stars per 1k downloads
1.27
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
207,689
Month daily avg
214,644
Momentum
-3.2%
((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
• 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
94 days ago
Total releases
64
Releases/year
16.9
• 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
131
Monthly downloads
6,439,308
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
3.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
5.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
15.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
87d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 152.3K
Windows 18.7K
macOS 1.7K

Python Versions

3.12
49.8% 84.6K
3.10
24.0% 40.8K
3.11
12.7% 21.6K
3.14
8.8% 14.9K
3.13
4.8% 8.1K

Top Countries

1. US US
118.8K
2. SG SG
7.8K
3. FI FI
4.1K
4. NL NL
4.1K
5. CA CA
3.1K
6. DE DE
3.0K
7. JP JP
2.9K
8. IE IE
2.8K
9. CN CN
2.3K
10. GB GB
1.9K

GitHub Topics

Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
August 9, 2022
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
0.49.2
Total Releases
64
Contributors
131
Open PRs
14
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
gpu optimizers optimization 8-bit quantization compression
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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