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djangorestframework-simplejwt

A JSON Web Token authentication plugin for the Django REST Framework.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

djangorestframework-simplejwt has 8M monthly downloads and 4K GitHub stars. Version 5.5.1 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2017.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2025.

It is built on top of django, djangorestframework and pyjwt. It is used by 180 tracked packages, including djoser, label-studio and django-learngual.

Downloads
Day
264.4K
Week
1.8M
Month
8.0M
Stars
4.3K
Forks
706
Issues
108
Version
5.5.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
79
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
41 days ago
Monthly downloads
7,974,964
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
7,974,964
Stars
4,326
Stars per 1k downloads
0.54
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
255,461
Month daily avg
265,832
Momentum
-3.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
350 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
787
Monthly downloads
7,974,964
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
71
 
Issue Burden
25.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
111.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
308d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 141.7K
Windows 3.0K
macOS 949

Python Versions

3.12
46.9% 63.0K
3.11
21.1% 28.4K
3.13
18.0% 24.2K
3.14
9.9% 13.2K
3.10
4.1% 5.5K

Top Countries

1. US US
112.4K
2. IN IN
4.6K
3. DE DE
4.6K
4. FR FR
2.6K
5. BR BR
2.2K
6. SG SG
1.9K
7. NL NL
1.5K
8. FI FI
1.5K
9. GB GB
1.3K
10. RU RU
1.1K

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
May 9, 2017
Last Release
11 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
5.5.1
Total Releases
47
Contributors
787
Open PRs
52
Archived
No
Author
David Sanders
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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