No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
litestar has 1.9M monthly downloads and 8K GitHub stars. Version 2.24.0 supports Python <4.0,>=3.8, first published in 2023.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of anyio, click and exceptiongroup. It is used by 100 tracked packages, including evidently, ixmp4 and litestar-granian.
GitHub topics include api, rest and pydantic.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
82
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
6 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,879,168
•
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
1,879,168
Stars
8,316
Stars per 1k downloads
4.43
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
57,284
Month daily avg
62,639
Momentum
-8.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4.0,>=3.8
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
•
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
25 days ago
Total releases
65
Releases/year
19.9
•
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
289
Monthly downloads
1,879,168
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
81
Issue Burden
27.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
32.7
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
50.5%
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
37.5K
Windows
374
macOS
337
Python Versions
3.12
33.2%
12.4K
3.10
27.6%
10.3K
3.11
18.5%
6.9K
3.14
11.1%
4.1K
3.13
9.6%
3.6K
Top Countries
1.
US
26.7K
US
2.
NL
5.6K
NL
3.
DE
1.5K
DE
4.
GB
1.3K
GB
5.
IN
1.1K
IN
6.
SG
287
SG
7.
RU
242
RU
8.
IE
196
IE
9.
FR
151
FR
10.
HK
97
HK
Dependencies
16
- anyio >=3
- click
- exceptiongroup
- httpx >=0.22
- importlib-metadata
- importlib-resources >=5.12.0
- litestar-htmx >=0.4.0
- msgspec >=0.18.2
- multidict >=6.0.2
- multipart >=1.2.0
- polyfactory >=2.6.3
- pyyaml
- rich >=13.0.0
- rich-click
- sniffio >=1.3.1
- typing-extensions
48 optional dependencies
- advanced-alchemy[full]
- advanced-alchemy[sqlalchemy]
- annotated-types[full]
- annotated-types[annotated-types]
- attrs[full]
- attrs[attrs]
- brotli[full]
- brotli[brotli]
- cryptography[cryptography]
- cryptography[jwt]
- cryptography[full]
- email-validator[full]
- email-validator[pydantic]
- jinja2[standard]
- jinja2[full]
- jinja2[jinja]
- jsbeautifier[standard]
- jsbeautifier[cli]
- jsbeautifier[full]
- mako[mako]
- mako[full]
- minijinja[minijinja]
- minijinja[full]
- opentelemetry-instrumentation-asgi[opentelemetry]
- opentelemetry-instrumentation-asgi[full]
- opentelemetry-sdk[full]
- opentelemetry-sdk[opentelemetry]
- piccolo[full]
- piccolo[piccolo]
- picologging[full]
- picologging[picologging]
- prometheus-client[prometheus]
- prometheus-client[full]
- pydantic[pydantic]
- pydantic[full]
- pydantic-extra-types[pydantic]
- pydantic-extra-types[full]
- pyjwt[jwt]
- pyjwt[full]
- redis[redis]
- redis[full]
- structlog[full]
- structlog[structlog]
- uvicorn[cli]
- uvicorn[full]
- uvicorn[standard]
- valkey[full]
- valkey[valkey]
Used By
100
- evidently
- ixmp4
- litestar-granian
- litestar-vite
- litestar-saq
- lilbee
- litestar-piccolo
- taskiq-litestar
- litestar-mcp
- skrift
- aio-microservice
- litestar-auth
- golit
- 3lc
- framework-m-standard
- litestar-email
- modern-di-litestar
- xn-auth
- sera-2
- hop3-server
- litestar-aiosql
- ai-accounts-litestar
- half-orm-litestar
- litestar-users
- litestar-asyncpg
- blackfish-ai
- litestar-offline-docs
- half-orm-gen
- litestar-geoalchemy
- litestar-workflows
- litestar-flags
- json-admin
- sparkden
- sqladmin-litestar-plugin
- acp-agent
- starlette-admin-litestar-plugin
- python-getpaid-simulator
- indipyweb
- faceberg
- anibridge-library-base
- kodosumi
- lsp-cli
- service-packages
- litestar-chameleon
- litegram
- litestar-mqtt
- camiskaze
- apiup
- md-server
- situ
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
April 1, 2023
Last Release
3 weeks ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
2.24.0
Total Releases
65
Contributors
289
Open PRs
69
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh