No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
django-axes has 3.6M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 8.3.1 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2008.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2026.
It is built on top of asgiref and django. It is used by 15 tracked packages, including django-cfg, open-api-framework and fiduswriter.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 104 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
70
Adoption
80
Community
90
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
41 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,577,608
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
3,577,608
Stars
1,685
Stars per 1k downloads
0.47
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
126,968
Month daily avg
119,254
Momentum
+6.5%
((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
MIT
•
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
145 days ago
Total releases
166
Releases/year
9.4
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
827
Monthly downloads
3,577,608
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
76
Issue Burden
11.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
226.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
104d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
43.6K
Windows
251
macOS
93
Python Versions
3.12
44.4%
18.9K
3.13
34.9%
14.9K
3.11
10.4%
4.4K
3.14
7.8%
3.3K
3.10
2.4%
1.0K
Top Countries
1.
US
38.3K
US
2.
DE
952
DE
3.
SG
731
SG
4.
AU
578
AU
5.
FR
513
FR
6.
FI
426
FI
7.
RU
265
RU
8.
NL
263
NL
9.
BR
185
BR
10.
GB
165
GB
Dependencies
2
1 optional dependencies
- django-ipware[ipware]
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
November 5, 2008
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
8.3.1
Total Releases
166
Contributors
827
Open PRs
19
Archived
No
Author
Josh VanderLinden, Philip Neustrom, Michael Blume, Alex Clark, Camilo Nova, Aleksi Hakli
Python Versions
3
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py2
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh