No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
insightface has 1.3M monthly downloads and 29K GitHub stars. Version 1.0.1, first published in 2019.
It is stably maintained, last released in May 2026.
It is built on top of numpy, onnx and onnxruntime. It is used by 41 tracked packages, including pixlstash, vhup and pyconverters-openai-vision.
GitHub topics include face-recognition, face-detection and mxnet.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
92
Adoption
80
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
44 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,332,012
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
1,332,012
Stars
29,152
Stars per 1k downloads
21.89
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
45,881
Month daily avg
44,400
Momentum
+3.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a license.
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
44 days ago
Total releases
30
Releases/year
4.4
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
59
Monthly downloads
1,332,012
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
71
Issue Burden
42.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
1.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
18.3K
Windows
6.7K
macOS
987
Python Versions
3.12
38.7%
9.9K
3.11
26.3%
6.7K
3.13
22.3%
5.7K
3.10
9.1%
2.3K
3.14
3.7%
940
Top Countries
1.
US
11.7K
US
2.
SG
1.6K
SG
3.
JP
1.3K
JP
4.
DE
1.3K
DE
5.
IN
930
IN
6.
CA
610
CA
7.
NL
594
NL
8.
CN
577
CN
9.
FR
437
FR
10.
GB
410
GB
Dependencies
8
7 optional dependencies
- albumentations[face3d]
- cython[face3d]
- matplotlib[face3d]
- pillow[gui]
- pyside6-essentials[gui]
- reportlab[gui]
- scikit-learn[gui]
Used By
41
- pixlstash
- vhup
- pyconverters-openai-vision
- ayase
- alpha-avatar-plugins-persona
- yaffo
- face-matching-king
- consisid-eva-clip
- stablepy
- photree
- lensgrep
- jllama-py
- niyya-face-detector
- identity-clustering
- visage
- media-analyzer
- giger
- ruurd-photos-ml
- opentalking
- pyautoflip
- image-evaluator
- faceangle
- captionalchemy
- insightface-recognition-sdk
- vhox
- sceneflow
- facelock
- body-eye-sync
- best-face-identification
- face-cluster
- face-identification
- featureconverter
- raysd
- auto-attendance
- vemem
- evalatar
- deeplive
- vox-bench
- face-cluster-cli
- facet-photo
- advanced-face-age-recognition-module
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Unknown
First Release
August 29, 2019
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
1.0.1
Total Releases
30
Contributors
59
Open PRs
42
Archived
No
Author
InsightFace Contributors
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh