PyRank
AzureAD

msal

Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) for Python makes it easy to authenticate to Microsoft Entra ID. General docs are available here https://learn.microsoft.com/entra/msal/python/ Stable APIs are documented here https://msal-python.readthedocs.io. Questions can be asked on www.stackoverflow.com with tag "msal" + "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.

msal has 198.7M monthly downloads and 962 GitHub stars. Version 1.37.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2018.

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

It is built on top of cryptography, pyjwt and requests. It is used by 417 tracked packages, including azure-identity, msal-extensions and azure-kusto-data.

GitHub topics include msal-python, azure and sdks.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-python) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
7.0M
Week
46.3M
Month
198.7M
Stars
962
Forks
218
Issues
68
Version
1.37.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
65
Adoption
70
Community
90
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
14 days ago
Monthly downloads
198,718,499
• 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
198,718,499
Stars
962
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• 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
6,618,202
Month daily avg
6,623,950
Momentum
-0.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
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
38 days ago
Total releases
72
Releases/year
9.5
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
180
Monthly downloads
198,718,499
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
94
 
Issue Burden
70.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
53.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
82.6%
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 6.4M
Windows 120.1K
macOS 14.1K

Python Versions

3.12
54.9% 3.4M
3.11
20.3% 1.3M
3.10
17.4% 1.1M
3.13
4.5% 280.1K
3.9
2.9% 183.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
4.8M
2. NL NL
615.6K
3. IE IE
356.3K
4. DE DE
127.2K
5. CA CA
80.8K
6. SG SG
66.9K
7. AU AU
65.7K
8. GB GB
65.0K
9. BR BR
60.0K
10. SE SE
57.5K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
December 12, 2018
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
1.37.0
Total Releases
72
Contributors
180
Open PRs
11
Archived
No
Author
Microsoft Corporation
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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