No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
fakeredis has 49.1M monthly downloads and 447 GitHub stars. Version 2.36.2 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2012.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of redis, sortedcontainers and typing-extensions. It is used by 72 tracked packages, including openhands-sdk, mcp-atlassian and cognee.
GitHub topics include testing, redis and redis-stack.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
56
Adoption
60
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
10 days ago
Monthly downloads
49,064,216
•
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
49,064,216
Stars
447
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
•
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
1,365,346
Month daily avg
1,635,474
Momentum
-16.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
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
BSD-3-Clause
•
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
19 days ago
Total releases
145
Releases/year
10.1
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
127
Monthly downloads
49,064,216
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
2.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
17.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
160.8%
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
736.0K
Windows
34.1K
macOS
5.0K
Python Versions
3.12
42.2%
309.2K
3.13
38.4%
281.7K
3.11
12.4%
90.9K
3.10
4.1%
30.2K
3.14
2.9%
21.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
607.1K
US
2.
SG
54.4K
SG
3.
IN
23.0K
IN
4.
DE
16.7K
DE
5.
JP
9.2K
JP
6.
IE
9.0K
IE
7.
ES
8.9K
ES
8.
NL
6.5K
NL
9.
CA
4.7K
CA
10.
FR
4.1K
FR
Dependencies
3
- redis <7.2
- sortedcontainers >=2
- typing-extensions >=4.7
8 optional dependencies
- jsonpath-ng[vectorset]
- jsonpath-ng[json]
- lupa[lua]
- numpy[vectorset]
- pyprobables[cf]
- pyprobables[bf]
- pyprobables[probabilistic]
- valkey[valkey]
Used By
72
- openhands-sdk
- mcp-atlassian
- cognee
- runlayer
- langroid
- corva-sdk
- plane-mcp-server
- mcp-server-datahub
- hypha
- rasa-core
- soliplex
- cacodes-mcp-server
- servicelayer
- linux-mcp-server
- fagoon-upgrade
- agora-redis-client
- fs-mcp
- celai
- modelq
- tcex-cli
- fastapi-cruddy-framework
- omni-pro
- irsol-data-pipeline-cli
- mcp-feedback-pro
- jac-cloud
- pycronado
- exasol-mcp-server-governed-sql
- cstar-ocean
- tcex-app-testing
- waldiez-runner
- oc-ds-converter
- pytestflow
- rc-openhands-sdk
- pytest-django-rq
- statezero
- st-llm-search-engine
- openaleph-servicelayer
- smolrouter
- porki
- eyecan-eyegway
- languru
- bcs-mcp-atlassian
- mcp-atlassian-multi
- lockr
- redisobjects
- typed-redis
- oneidentity-safeguard-sessions-plugin-sdk
- easyscan-server
- rokrokss-mcp-atlassian
- atlassian-hub
Package Information
License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
March 14, 2012
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
2.36.2
Total Releases
145
Contributors
127
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
3.15
Wheels
py2
py27
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh