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brian2

Brian is a free, open source simulator for spiking neural networks.
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Verified repo
Monthly downloads
39.7K
Weekly downloads
7.5K
GitHub stars
1.2K

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

Package Information

Latest Version
2.10.1
Requires Python
>=3.12
Licence
CECILL-2.1
Last Release
10 months ago
Author
Marcel Stimberg, Dan Goodman, Benjamin Evans, Romain Brette
First Release
October 13, 2013
Total Releases
54
Python Versions
3
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
100
Popularity
68
Adoption
45
Community
80
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
6 days ago
Monthly downloads
39,711
• 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
39,711
Stars
1,241
Stars per 1k downloads
31.25
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
1,074
Month daily avg
1,324
Momentum
-18.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.12
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
CECILL-2.1
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
315 days ago
Total releases
54
Releases/year
4.1
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
78
Monthly downloads
39,711
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
77
 
Issue Burden
150.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
25.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
308d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 
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Downloads by OS

Linux 509
Windows 143
macOS 28

Python Versions

3.12
53.5% 341
3.13
14.4% 92
3.10
12.1% 77
3.11
11.8% 75
3.14
8.2% 52

Top Countries

1. US US
942
2. BE BE
25
3. CN CN
15
4. JP JP
13
5. SG SG
13
6. GB GB
10
7. HK HK
9
8. IN IN
8
9. NL NL
8
10. DE DE
7

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

8
7 optional dependencies

Used By

19
View all 19 dependents

Repository details

Forks
303
Issues
187
Last Commit
1 week ago
Contributors
78
Open PRs
23
Archived
No

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
computational neuroscience simulation neural networks spiking neurons biological neural networks research
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