No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
cvxpy has 4.4M monthly downloads and 6K GitHub stars. Version 1.9.2 supports Python 3.11+, first published in 2014.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of clarabel, highspy and numpy. It is used by 371 tracked packages, including ropwr, dowhy and pyportfolioopt.
GitHub topics include cvxpy, optimization and modeling-language.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
83
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
6 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,428,120
•
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
4,428,120
Stars
6,273
Stars per 1k downloads
1.42
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
143,802
Month daily avg
147,604
Momentum
-2.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.11
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
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
148
Releases/year
12.2
•
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
244
Monthly downloads
4,428,120
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
93
Issue Burden
23.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
23.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
20.6%
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
86.6K
Windows
3.5K
macOS
2.0K
Python Versions
3.12
46.4%
39.9K
3.11
30.7%
26.4K
3.10
11.6%
10.0K
3.13
8.0%
6.8K
3.8
3.4%
2.9K
Top Countries
1.
US
69.3K
US
2.
IE
7.8K
IE
3.
NL
2.8K
NL
4.
SG
2.6K
SG
5.
DE
1.8K
DE
6.
IN
1.5K
IN
7.
HK
1.2K
HK
8.
CN
990
CN
9.
JP
960
JP
10.
GB
639
GB
Dependencies
8
- clarabel >=0.5.0
- highspy >=1.14.0
- numpy >=2.0.0
- osqp >=1.0.0
- qdldl >=0.1.7.post0
- scipy >=1.13.0
- scs >=3.2.4.post1
- sparsediffpy <0.4.0,>=0.3.0
30 optional dependencies
- coptpy[copt]
- cvxopt[cvxopt]
- cvxopt[glpk-mi]
- cvxopt[glpk]
- cylp[cbc]
- daqp[daqp]
- diffcp[diffcp]
- ecos[ecos]
- ecos[ecos-bb]
- gurobipy[gurobi]
- highspy[highs]
- hypothesis[testing]
- knitro[knitro]
- mosek[mosek]
- ortools[pdlp]
- ortools[glop]
- piqp[piqp]
- proxsuite[proxqp]
- pyscipopt[scip]
- pytest[testing]
- qoco[qoco]
- qpalm[qpalm]
- scipy[scipy]
- sphinx[doc]
- sphinx-design[doc]
- sphinx-immaterial[doc]
- sphinx-inline-tabs[doc]
- sphinxcontrib-jquery[doc]
- unopy[uno]
- xpress[xpress]
Used By
371
- ropwr
- dowhy
- pyportfolioopt
- riskfolio-lib
- pyqlib
- cvxpylayers
- aimet-torch
- qldpc
- iqm-benchmarks
- qat-quops
- kapture-localization
- pygridsynth
- cvxportfolio
- greykite
- rfscorer
- polyfit
- openscvx
- solar-data-tools
- semeio
- qss
- pyvmcon
- sig-decomp
- siat
- qiskit-addon-mpf
- spcqe
- factorlasso
- emhass
- iqm-qaoa
- scpi-pkg
- radiomicsmodellingsuite
- delphi-utils
- benchmarkdpfair
- probabilit
- green-mbtools
- reforge-core
- calibre
- rampy
- optimalportfolios
- bssunfold
- jurity
- pepit
- easier
- cvxpygen
- silars
- sortition-algorithms
- muscat
- autoemx
- pygamma-agreement
- knockpy
- qiskit-addon-opt-mapper
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Apache-2.0
First Release
May 5, 2014
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
1.9.2
Total Releases
148
Contributors
244
Open PRs
34
Archived
No
Wheels
cp27
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp35
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh