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facenet-pytorch

Pretrained Pytorch face detection (MTCNN) and facial recognition (InceptionResnet) models
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

facenet-pytorch has 157K monthly downloads and 5K GitHub stars. Version 2.6.0, first published in 2019.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2024.

It is built on top of numpy, pillow and requests. It is used by 26 tracked packages, including fer, idvpackage and clipsai.

GitHub topics include pytorch, resnet and inception-resnet.

Downloads
Day
3.7K
Week
34.8K
Month
157.1K
Stars
5.2K
Forks
1.0K
Issues
78
Version
2.6.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
81
Adoption
61
Community
55
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
704 days ago
Monthly downloads
157,105
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
157,105
Stars
5,151
Stars per 1k downloads
32.79
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
4,965
Month daily avg
5,237
Momentum
-5.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
MIT 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
799 days ago
Total releases
33
Releases/year
4.7
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
20
Monthly downloads
157,105
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
60
 
Issue Burden
15.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
2.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
94d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 2.6K
Windows 437
macOS 90

Python Versions

3.11
35.8% 1.1K
3.12
34.3% 1.0K
3.10
18.6% 554
3.13
7.1% 212
3.14
4.2% 126

Top Countries

1. US US
2.1K
2. KR KR
252
3. IN IN
198
4. SG SG
113
5. DE DE
91
6. NL NL
90
7. CN CN
72
8. JP JP
28
9. TW TW
27
10. GB GB
24
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
July 1, 2019
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
2.6.0
Total Releases
33
Contributors
20
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Author
Tim Esler
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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