PyRank
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gguf

LLM inference in C/C++
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

gguf has 7.2M monthly downloads and 120K GitHub stars. Version 0.19.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2023.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.

It is built on top of numpy, pyyaml and requests. It is used by 76 tracked packages, including sglang, invokeai and vllm-tpu.

GitHub topics include ggml.

Downloads
Day
202.4K
Week
1.5M
Month
7.2M
Stars
119.5K
Forks
20.3K
Issues
672
Version
0.19.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
100
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
0 days ago
Monthly downloads
7,193,755
• 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
7,193,755
Stars
119,531
Stars per 1k downloads
16.62
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
219,473
Month daily avg
239,792
Momentum
-8.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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 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
62 days ago
Total releases
26
Releases/year
9.1
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
1,777
Monthly downloads
7,193,755
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
91
 
Issue Burden
5.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
28.6
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
8.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
61d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 134.2K
Windows 13.9K
macOS 6.5K

Python Versions

3.12
50.4% 77.5K
3.10
18.2% 28.0K
3.11
17.1% 26.4K
3.13
11.3% 17.4K
3.14
2.9% 4.5K

Top Countries

1. US US
119.7K
2. SG SG
3.6K
3. KR KR
3.4K
4. SE SE
2.7K
5. JP JP
2.7K
6. DE DE
2.0K
7. NL NL
1.8K
8. CN CN
1.7K
9. IS IS
1.6K
10. GB GB
1.5K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
August 24, 2023
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
16 hr ago
Latest Version
0.19.0
Total Releases
26
Contributors
1,777
Open PRs
1,152
Archived
No
Author
GGML
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Keywords
ggml gguf llama.cpp
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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