No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
jwt has 3.7M monthly downloads and 159 GitHub stars. Version 1.4.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2014.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2025.
It is built on top of cryptography. It is used by 100 tracked packages, including composabl-core-dev, infoworkssdk and abstract-logins.
GitHub topics include jwt, jws and jwa.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
46
Adoption
70
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
378 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,715,809
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
3,715,809
Stars
159
Stars per 1k downloads
0.04
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
120,190
Month daily avg
123,860
Momentum
-3.0%
((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
Apache Software 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
378 days ago
Total releases
18
Releases/year
1.5
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
12
Monthly downloads
3,715,809
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
49
Issue Burden
18.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
36.4%
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
61.9K
Windows
400
macOS
332
Python Versions
3.11
50.3%
22.4K
3.12
17.6%
7.8K
3.13
16.9%
7.5K
3.10
10.2%
4.6K
3.14
5.0%
2.2K
Top Countries
1.
US
46.0K
US
2.
NL
8.0K
NL
3.
IT
1.1K
IT
4.
DE
1.1K
DE
5.
GB
852
GB
6.
BR
731
BR
7.
IE
660
IE
8.
RO
647
RO
9.
KR
633
KR
10.
JP
600
JP
Dependencies
1
- cryptography !=3.4.0,>=3.1
7 optional dependencies
- black[dev]
- freezegun[test]
- isort[dev]
- mypy[dev]
- pytest[test]
- pytest-cov[test]
- types-freezegun[dev]
Used By
100
- composabl-core-dev
- infoworkssdk
- abstract-logins
- intctl
- aimped
- akashcli
- coguard-cli
- otterdog
- healthchain
- ado-sfttrainer
- mattlib
- django-kc-auth
- tcs-garr
- noteable-origami
- github-checks
- gwcloud-python
- ui-demo-framework
- paymentsgate
- stela-publishing
- gwdc-python
- proteus-cli
- flawlessapi
- dtool-lookup-gui
- backtesterrb30
- gwlab-viterbi-python
- stela-control-dynamic
- nodetool
- llama-index-callbacks-aim
- buddybet-idpsecure
- tb-wrapper
- telesto
- ghoauth
- open-schools
- kck
- httpx-oauth2
- django-allauth-simple-ui
- gwlandscape-python
- freefire-account-info
- pycrossauth
- stela-ultimate
- fetch-dcos-token
- tanco
- dataspine-cli
- drf-auth-simple
- rdpywheel
- aziraclient
- auth2guard
- fdsauth
- lback-framework
- tasc-common
Package Information
License
Apache Software License
First Release
April 16, 2014
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
1.4.0
Total Releases
18
Contributors
12
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh