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pydantic

httpx2

A next generation HTTP client for Python. 🦋
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

httpx2 has 34M monthly downloads and 699 GitHub stars. Version 2.5.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2026.

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

It is built on top of anyio, httpcore2 and idna. It is used by 95 tracked packages, including hatch, genai-prices and bump-my-version.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (pydantic/httpx2) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
1.3M
Week
8.7M
Month
34.0M
Stars
699
Forks
33
Issues
92
Version
2.5.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
70
Popularity
55
Adoption
80
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
11 days ago
Monthly downloads
33,965,470
• 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
33,965,470
Stars
699
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
• 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
1,243,631
Month daily avg
1,132,182
Momentum
+9.8%
((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
BSD-3-Clause
• 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
12 days ago
Total releases
8
Releases/year
51.2
• 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
303
Monthly downloads
33,965,470
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
69
 
Issue Burden
131.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
12.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
918.2%
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 966.2K
Windows 11.9K
macOS 10.2K

Python Versions

3.10
61.2% 602.6K
3.12
13.5% 133.1K
3.13
11.3% 111.8K
3.14
7.4% 72.8K
3.11
6.6% 64.9K

Top Countries

1. US US
937.7K
2. DE DE
9.4K
3. IE IE
4.4K
4. FR FR
3.6K
5. SG SG
3.3K
6. CA CA
3.0K
7. NL NL
2.8K
8. GB GB
2.6K
9. IN IN
2.0K
10. AU AU
2.0K

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
May 11, 2026
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
2.5.0
Total Releases
8
Contributors
303
Open PRs
18
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
May 11, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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