No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
colorama has 430.9M monthly downloads and 4K GitHub stars. Version 0.4.6, first published in 2010.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Oct 2022.
It is used by 7,191 tracked packages, including pytest, click and tqdm.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 1296 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
74
Adoption
70
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
54 days ago
Monthly downloads
430,947,796
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
430,947,796
Stars
3,793
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
13,468,802
Month daily avg
14,364,927
Momentum
-6.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,!=3.2.*,!=3.3.*,!=3.4.*,!=3.5.*,!=3.6.*,>=2.7
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 License
•
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
1351 days ago
Total releases
46
Releases/year
2.8
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
48
Monthly downloads
430,947,796
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
56
Issue Burden
28.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
17.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1296d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
8.2M
Windows
612.1K
macOS
101.4K
Python Versions
3.12
38.8%
3.1M
3.11
26.4%
2.1M
3.10
17.1%
1.4M
3.13
12.2%
977.0K
3.14
5.6%
448.7K
Top Countries
1.
US
6.1M
US
2.
SG
701.9K
SG
3.
IE
394.0K
IE
4.
DE
308.2K
DE
5.
IN
227.2K
IN
6.
NL
171.7K
NL
7.
HK
152.8K
HK
8.
JP
114.8K
JP
9.
GB
92.1K
GB
10.
CN
72.8K
CN
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
7191
- pytest
- click
- tqdm
- typer
- awscli
- ipython
- build
- sphinx
- dbt-common
- loguru
- pylint
- colorlog
- rich-click
- semgrep
- tox
- bandit
- qrcode
- checkov
- wasabi
- mkdocs-material
- mkdocs
- colorful
- griffecli
- sqlfluff
- deptry
- pipx
- azure-cli
- sphinx-autobuild
- pyscaffold
- behave
- sacrebleu
- livekit-agents
- conan
- azure-ai-ml
- commitizen
- seleniumbase
- openapi-python-client
- traceloop-sdk
- icecream
- dvc
- apache-superset
- apify-client
- mistral-vibe
- properdocs
- androguard
- tecton
- honcho
- copier
- angr
- log-symbols
Package Information
License
BSD License
First Release
April 20, 2010
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
0.4.6
Total Releases
46
Contributors
48
Open PRs
29
Archived
No
Python Versions
2
2.7
3
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh