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marcelotduarte

cx-freeze

Creates standalone executables from Python scripts with the same performance as the original script. It is cross-platform and should work on any platform that Python runs on.
PyPI GitHub Verified repo
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

cx-freeze has 233K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 8.6.4 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2014.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2026.

It is built on top of dmgbuild, filelock and freeze-core. It is used by 27 tracked packages, including dragonlog, kkappkit and morrisseau-cleaner.

GitHub topics include freeze, cx-freeze and freezing-python-scripts.

Downloads
Day
6.6K
Week
49.7K
Month
233.2K
Stars
1.6K
Forks
243
Issues
41
Version
8.6.4

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
68
Adoption
63
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
10 days ago
Monthly downloads
233,154
• 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
233,154
Stars
1,555
Stars per 1k downloads
6.67
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
7,094
Month daily avg
7,772
Momentum
-8.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
PSF-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
85 days ago
Total releases
105
Releases/year
8.6
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
103
Monthly downloads
233,154
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
84
 
Issue Burden
26.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
88.1
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
42.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
74d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 3.1K
Windows 800
macOS 91

Python Versions

3.11
58.7% 2.2K
3.12
13.8% 508
3.10
12.6% 463
3.14
8.2% 300
3.9
6.6% 244

Top Countries

1. US US
3.1K
2. CN CN
360
3. KR KR
94
4. SG SG
72
5. DE DE
45
6. FR FR
40
7. BR BR
35
8. RU RU
35
9. NL NL
32
10. TW TW
25
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
PSF-2.0
First Release
May 8, 2014
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
8.6.4
Total Releases
105
Contributors
103
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp27 cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp34 cp35 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39 py3
Keywords
cx-freeze cxfreeze cx_Freeze freeze python
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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