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blake3

Python bindings for the BLAKE3 cryptographic hash function
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

blake3 has 17.3M monthly downloads and 200 GitHub stars. Version 1.0.9 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2020.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is built on top of typing-extensions. It is used by 205 tracked packages, including lmnr, vllm and truss.

Downloads
Day
458.4K
Week
4.1M
Month
17.3M
Stars
200
Forks
20
Issues
5
Version
1.0.9

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
45
Adoption
80
Community
40
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
5 days ago
Monthly downloads
17,340,057
• 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
17,340,057
Stars
200
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
586,144
Month daily avg
578,002
Momentum
+1.4%
((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
CC0-1.0 OR 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
14 days ago
Total releases
27
Releases/year
4.2
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
11
Monthly downloads
17,340,057
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
34
 
Issue Burden
25.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
55.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 292.8K
Windows 18.9K
macOS 7.4K

Python Versions

3.12
44.1% 139.6K
3.13
39.4% 124.7K
3.11
9.5% 30.1K
3.10
5.2% 16.5K
3.14
1.8% 5.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
235.8K
2. SG SG
31.8K
3. KR KR
9.5K
4. JP JP
7.4K
5. DE DE
4.7K
6. HK HK
3.5K
7. CN CN
3.4K
8. NL NL
2.6K
9. CA CA
2.3K
10. GB GB
2.2K

Package Information

License
CC0-1.0 OR Apache-2.0
First Release
February 29, 2020
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
6 days ago
Latest Version
1.0.9
Total Releases
27
Contributors
11
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Jack O'Connor <oconnor663@gmail.com>
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp35 cp37 cp38 cp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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