No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
faster-whisper has 9M monthly downloads and 24K GitHub stars. Version 1.2.1 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2023.
It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Oct 2025.
It is built on top of av, ctranslate2 and huggingface-hub. It is used by 378 tracked packages, including open-webui, whisperx and tm-ai.
GitHub topics include deep-learning, inference and quantization.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
91
Adoption
60
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
229 days ago
Monthly downloads
8,984,450
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
8,984,450
Stars
24,033
Stars per 1k downloads
2.67
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
244,919
Month daily avg
299,482
Momentum
-18.2%
((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
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
248 days ago
Total releases
21
Releases/year
6.4
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
8,984,450
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
11.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
9.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
2.4%
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
139.5K
Windows
32.9K
macOS
14.7K
Python Versions
3.12
40.9%
75.6K
3.11
28.5%
52.6K
3.10
12.6%
23.3K
3.13
10.9%
20.1K
3.14
7.1%
13.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
116.3K
US
2.
CN
6.6K
CN
3.
DE
5.2K
DE
4.
SG
4.9K
SG
5.
IN
4.7K
IN
6.
JP
4.1K
JP
7.
RU
4.0K
RU
8.
BR
3.3K
BR
9.
NL
2.7K
NL
10.
FR
2.5K
FR
Dependencies
6
- av >=11
- ctranslate2 <5,>=4.0
- huggingface-hub >=0.21
- onnxruntime <2,>=1.14
- tokenizers <1,>=0.13
- tqdm
5 optional dependencies
- black[dev]
- flake8[dev]
- isort[dev]
- pytest[dev]
- transformers[conversion]
Used By
378
- open-webui
- whisperx
- tm-ai
- gamesentenceminer
- meeting-helper
- whisper-ctranslate2
- alpi-agent
- corvinos
- aurapro-ui
- supervertaler
- jusfltuls
- audio-transcriber
- lingtai
- whisperlivekit
- whispergram
- vision-agents-plugins-fast-whisper
- reel-sync
- whisper-live
- faster-whisper-hotkey
- loop-chat
- bristlenose
- ovos-stt-plugin-fasterwhisper
- fast-whisper-diarizer
- wyoming-faster-whisper
- yazses
- whisper-key-local
- ayase
- audium-md
- whisper-ui
- dictare
- newbro-cli
- avrvx
- stream-translator-gpt
- vision-agents-plugins-vogent
- plexflow
- stttype
- banglaspeech2text
- subs-down-n-sync
- easyspeak-linux
- whisperx-legen-fork
- lore-ai
- transcribe-with-whisper
- whispersub
- buzz-captions
- transcriber
- noapi-google-search-mcp
- faster-whisper-server
- harpio
- vox-box
- chapterize-whisper
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
March 22, 2023
Last Release
8 months ago
Last Commit
7 months ago
Latest Version
1.2.1
Total Releases
21
Contributors
48
Open PRs
23
Archived
No
Author
Guillaume Klein
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh