No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
captum has 545K monthly downloads and 6K GitHub stars. Version 0.9.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2019.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2026.
It is built on top of matplotlib, numpy and packaging. It is used by 95 tracked packages, including neuralprophet, transformers-interpret and grelu.
GitHub topics include interpretability, interpretable-ai and interpretable-ml.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
80
Adoption
67
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
20 days ago
Monthly downloads
544,618
•
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
544,618
Stars
5,662
Stars per 1k downloads
10.40
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
16,357
Month daily avg
18,154
Momentum
-9.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
BSD-3-Clause
•
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
80 days ago
Total releases
12
Releases/year
1.8
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
132
Monthly downloads
544,618
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
64
Issue Burden
5.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
23.6%
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
10.8K
Windows
435
macOS
187
Python Versions
3.12
47.4%
4.9K
3.11
23.4%
2.4K
3.10
13.7%
1.4K
3.9
8.3%
851
3.7
7.2%
744
Top Countries
1.
US
8.8K
US
2.
DE
1.1K
DE
3.
KR
364
KR
4.
IE
227
IE
5.
SG
224
SG
6.
NL
171
NL
7.
IN
91
IN
8.
HK
76
HK
9.
GB
58
GB
10.
CA
50
CA
Dependencies
5
- matplotlib
- numpy
- packaging
- torch >=2.3
- tqdm
17 optional dependencies
- annoy[optional]
- black[test]
- captum[dev]
- flake8[test]
- openai[optional]
- parameterized[test]
- pyre-check-nightly[test]
- pytest[test]
- pytest-cov[test]
- scikit-learn[optional]
- sphinx[dev]
- sphinx-autodoc-typehints[dev]
- sphinxcontrib-katex[dev]
- torchtext[tutorials]
- torchvision[tutorials]
- ufmt[test]
- usort[test]
Used By
95
- neuralprophet
- transformers-interpret
- grelu
- spotpython
- azureml-automl-dnn-vision
- eir-dl
- bertnado
- flexynesis
- tpcav
- decima
- sccamel
- tsinterpret
- hiclip
- thinxai
- spacr
- nansense
- fundus-image-toolbox
- scimilarity
- pytorchautoforge
- transformers-visualizer
- inseq
- amuletml
- pydeepmapper
- matcha-metric
- spotgui
- xai4tsc
- kcai-data-sampling
- pymaise
- torchxai-tools
- spacr-nightly
- ferret-xai
- dnallm
- time-interpret
- beexai
- obzai
- xai-evals
- freqig
- physioex
- imgraph
- pyg-captum-shap
- sc-signature
- layer-wise-integrated-gradients
- slime-nlp
- proteinworkshop
- hpipy
- patchviz
- bias-lens
- meteors
- pnpxai
- tscaptum
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
September 3, 2019
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Latest Version
0.9.0
Total Releases
12
Contributors
132
Open PRs
36
Archived
No
Author
PyTorch Team
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh