No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
fastembed has 11.1M monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 0.8.0 supports Python 3.10.0+, first published in 2023.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.
It is built on top of huggingface-hub, loguru and mmh3. It is used by 412 tracked packages, including mcp-server-qdrant, nemoguardrails and cuga.
GitHub topics include embeddings, openai and rag.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
72
Adoption
80
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
42 days ago
Monthly downloads
11,098,778
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
11,098,778
Stars
3,071
Stars per 1k downloads
0.28
•
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
395,045
Month daily avg
369,959
Momentum
+6.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10.0
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 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
105 days ago
Total releases
44
Releases/year
14.8
•
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
40
Monthly downloads
11,098,778
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
68
Issue Burden
36.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
7.2
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
18.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
62d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
324.3K
Windows
6.4K
macOS
4.5K
Python Versions
3.12
84.8%
282.9K
3.11
5.9%
19.6K
3.13
4.4%
14.7K
3.14
3.8%
12.6K
3.10
1.2%
4.0K
Top Countries
1.
US
304.5K
US
2.
FR
6.8K
FR
3.
IN
4.0K
IN
4.
DE
2.7K
DE
5.
ID
1.3K
ID
6.
BR
910
BR
7.
GB
907
GB
8.
CN
877
CN
9.
SG
859
SG
10.
NL
804
NL
Dependencies
10
- huggingface-hub <2.0,>=0.20
- loguru <0.8.0,>=0.7.2
- mmh3 <6.0.0,>=4.1.0
- numpy >=1.21
- onnxruntime !=1.24.0,!=1.24.1,>1.21.0
- pillow <13.0,>=10.3.0
- py-rust-stemmers <0.2.0,>=0.1.0
- requests <3.0,>=2.31
- tokenizers <1.0,>=0.15
- tqdm <5.0,>=4.66
Used By
412
- mcp-server-qdrant
- nemoguardrails
- cuga
- kanban-framework
- basic-memory
- nextcloud-mcp-server
- alpi-agent
- research-os
- fastembed-haystack
- fastembed-vectorstore
- agentcairn
- anteroom
- soothe
- agent-natalie
- mimir-agent
- trustgraph-flow
- brein-mcp
- horus-source
- claude-code-conductor
- mnemon-memory
- neo-reasoner
- token-goat
- lightclaw
- llama-index-sparse-embeddings-fastembed
- memnos
- cortex-local
- cerebrofy
- timber-common
- cachibot
- chibi-bot
- polymath-cli
- knowledge-rag
- prompt-security-utils
- memfg
- trovex
- compliance-os
- kogniterm
- raggity
- datus-agent
- gingugu
- hermes-next
- cc-star
- layered-memory-mcp
- contextual-engine
- karst
- clovis
- wheeler
- yigraf
- memex-chats
- pg-raggraph
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Apache License
First Release
July 17, 2023
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
0.8.0
Total Releases
44
Contributors
40
Open PRs
24
Archived
No
Author
Qdrant Team
Python Versions
3
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh