No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
imagecodecs has 1.3M monthly downloads and 182 GitHub stars. Version 2026.6.26 supports Python 3.12+, first published in 2018.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of numpy. It is used by 275 tracked packages, including nnunetv2, cellpose and squidpy.
GitHub topics include image, tiff and jpeg.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- High bus factor: only 1 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
46
Adoption
70
Community
10
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
9 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,316,242
•
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
1,316,242
Stars
182
Stars per 1k downloads
0.14
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
43,553
Month daily avg
43,875
Momentum
-0.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.12
•
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
9 days ago
Total releases
70
Releases/year
9.0
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
Monthly downloads
1,316,242
•
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
21
Issue Burden
11.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
3.3%
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
16.1K
macOS
2.0K
Windows
1.8K
Python Versions
3.12
45.0%
8.4K
3.11
27.0%
5.0K
3.10
12.1%
2.3K
3.13
10.7%
2.0K
3.14
5.2%
980
Top Countries
1.
US
14.9K
US
2.
SG
1.2K
SG
3.
CN
628
CN
4.
DE
518
DE
5.
NL
411
NL
6.
IE
304
IE
7.
JP
293
JP
8.
TW
218
TW
9.
GB
217
GB
10.
FR
163
FR
Dependencies
1
- numpy >=2.1
21 optional dependencies
- backports-zstd[test]
- bitshuffle[test]
- blosc[test]
- blosc2[test]
- brotli[test]
- czifile[test]
- kerchunk[test]
- liffile[test]
- lz4[test]
- matplotlib[all]
- numcodecs[test]
- numcodecs[all]
- pyliblzfse[test]
- pytest[test]
- pytest-run-parallel[test]
- python-lzf[test]
- python-snappy[test]
- tifffile[all]
- tifffile[test]
- zarr[test]
- zopflipy[test]
Used By
275
- nnunetv2
- cellpose
- squidpy
- czifile
- anomalib
- tiffslide
- imagecodecs-numcodecs
- bioio-tifffile
- setiastrosuitepro
- virtual-tiff
- spatialdata-io
- bioio-ome-tiff
- bioimageio-core
- opentile
- ibllib
- renumics-spotlight
- partseg
- bfio
- tiatoolbox
- imagecodecs-lite
- neuroglancer-scripts
- tracksdata
- mbo-utilities
- oneat
- trackastra
- fezrs
- nnunetv2-neuropoly
- morphapi
- celldega
- radiomicsmodellingsuite
- crl-datacube
- image2image-io
- phenotypic
- swcgeom
- micro-sam
- thyra
- openhcs
- foscat
- copex-high-rate-compression-quality-metrics
- biapy
- pentachrome-plugin
- pivtools
- epicure
- eo-products
- earthdaily-earthone
- xdart
- cytodataframe
- pyometiff
- panimg
- insitupy-spatial
Package Information
License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
October 11, 2018
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
2026.6.26
Total Releases
70
Contributors
1
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Christoph Gohlke
Python Versions
3.12
3.13
3.14
3.15
Wheels
cp27
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp315
cp35
cp38
cp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh