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casadi

casadi

CasADi is a symbolic framework for numeric optimization implementing automatic differentiation in forward and reverse modes on sparse matrix-valued computational graphs. It supports self-contained C-code generation and interfaces state-of-the-art codes such as SUNDIALS, IPOPT etc. It can be used from C++, Python or Matlab/Octave.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

casadi has 1.2M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 3.7.2, first published in 2017.

It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Sep 2025.

It is built on top of numpy. It is used by 94 tracked packages, including cadquery, pybammsolvers and aerosandbox.

GitHub topics include optimization, nonlinear and derivatives.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (casadi/casadi) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
40.8K
Week
293.0K
Month
1.2M
Stars
2.2K
Forks
451
Issues
712
Version
3.7.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
73
Adoption
80
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,172,311
• 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
1,172,311
Stars
2,248
Stars per 1k downloads
1.92
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
41,850
Month daily avg
39,077
Momentum
+7.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
GNU Lesser General Public License v3 or later (LGPLv3+)
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
298 days ago
Total releases
47
Releases/year
5.1
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
67
Monthly downloads
1,172,311
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
92
 
Issue Burden
316.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
251.3
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
14.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
295d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 19.8K
Windows 1.3K
macOS 718

Python Versions

3.12
39.8% 8.4K
3.11
35.1% 7.4K
3.13
13.7% 2.9K
3.10
9.3% 1.9K
3.14
2.1% 442

Top Countries

1. US US
14.6K
2. CA CA
1.8K
3. SG SG
1.3K
4. HK HK
1.0K
5. CN CN
614
6. FR FR
572
7. IE IE
544
8. DE DE
426
9. IN IN
340
10. JP JP
266

Package Information

License
GNU Lesser General Public License v3 or later (LGPLv3+)
First Release
April 9, 2017
Last Release
9 months ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
3.7.2
Total Releases
47
Contributors
67
Open PRs
21
Archived
No
Author
Joel Andersson, Joris Gillis, Greg Horn
Python Versions
2 2.7 3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
cp27 cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp34 cp35 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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