No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
falcon has 1.4M monthly downloads and 10K GitHub stars. Version 4.3.1 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2013.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is used by 153 tracked packages, including mailman, hug and falcon-auth2.
GitHub topics include rest, microservices and web.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
85
Adoption
80
Community
80
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
5 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,352,045
•
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
1,352,045
Stars
9,797
Stars per 1k downloads
7.25
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
48,240
Month daily avg
45,068
Momentum
+7.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
Apache-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
20 days ago
Total releases
102
Releases/year
7.6
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
231
Monthly downloads
1,352,045
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
82
Issue Burden
15.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
5.7
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
23.0%
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
30.3K
Windows
752
macOS
43
Python Versions
3.12
72.1%
21.4K
3.11
12.2%
3.6K
3.10
7.0%
2.1K
3.9
4.6%
1.4K
3.13
4.1%
1.2K
Top Countries
1.
US
20.9K
US
2.
SG
5.9K
SG
3.
JP
986
JP
4.
HK
920
HK
5.
IN
588
IN
6.
GB
357
GB
7.
DE
353
DE
8.
CN
256
CN
9.
IE
224
IE
10.
CA
218
CA
Dependencies
0
1 optional dependencies
- pytest[test]
Used By
153
- mailman
- hug
- falcon-auth2
- morph-kgc
- gardener-cicd-whd
- falcon-policy
- falcon-sqla
- falcon-apispec
- falcon-swagger-ui
- hio
- pysabr
- keri
- logprep
- fastdeploy
- addok
- falcon-caching
- graceful
- hcli-core
- epyt-flow
- brightsky
- rsfc
- gamutrf
- jasmin
- efesto
- nostr-relay
- anomed-anonymizer
- vectordbcloud
- falcon-helpers
- freezer-api
- reshut
- anomed-challenge
- robotoff
- falcon-marshmallow
- anomed-utils
- oncall
- falcon-rate-limiter
- falcon-jsonify
- zaqar
- falcon-prometheus
- kuroboros
- git-analytics
- anomed-deanonymizer
- falcon-core
- floe
- falcon-url
- a2d-diary
- falcon-limiter
- finitelycomputable-helloworld-falcon
- finitelycomputable-falcon-addroute
- did-webs-resolver
Package Information
License
Apache-2.0
First Release
January 22, 2013
Last Release
3 weeks ago
Last Commit
6 days ago
Latest Version
4.3.1
Total Releases
102
Contributors
231
Open PRs
18
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp26
cp27
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp33
cp34
cp35
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh