PyRank
SYSTRAN

faster-whisper

Faster Whisper transcription with CTranslate2
PyPI GitHub

Shared Repository

This package shares its GitHub repository (SYSTRAN/faster-whisper) with 2 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
217.2K
Week
1.4M
Month
7.1M
Stars
23.0K
Forks
1.9K
Issues
282
Version
1.2.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
91
Adoption
60
Community
50
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
184 days ago
Monthly downloads
7,138,730
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
7,138,730
Stars
23,018
Stars per 1k downloads
3.22
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
197,565
Month daily avg
237,958
Momentum
-17.0%
((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
203 days ago
Total releases
21
Releases/year
6.6
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
48
Monthly downloads
7,138,730
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
77
 
Issue Burden
12.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
10.1
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
2.6%
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 131.3K
Windows 22.8K
macOS 12.6K

Python Versions

3.12
37.6% 62.0K
3.11
34.3% 56.6K
3.14
13.2% 21.8K
3.13
8.0% 13.2K
3.10
6.8% 11.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
99.5K
2. CN CN
6.7K
3. DE DE
5.0K
4. SG SG
4.4K
5. RU RU
4.1K
6. IN IN
4.1K
7. JP JP
3.8K
8. FR FR
2.6K
9. BR BR
2.3K
10. NL NL
2.2K

GitHub Topics

Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
March 22, 2023
Last Release
6 months ago
Last Commit
6 months ago
Latest Version
1.2.1
Total Releases
21
Contributors
48
Open PRs
18
Archived
No
Author
Guillaume Klein
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11
Wheels
py3
Keywords
openai whisper speech ctranslate2 inference quantization transformer
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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