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multiprocess

better multiprocessing and multithreading in 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.

multiprocess has 274.8M monthly downloads and 700 GitHub stars. Version 0.70.19 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2015.

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

It is built on top of dill. It is used by 439 tracked packages, including datasets, pathos and wrapt-timeout-decorator.

Downloads
Day
4.6M
Week
46.1M
Month
274.8M
Stars
700
Forks
68
Issues
36
Version
0.70.19

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
58
Adoption
60
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
14 days ago
Monthly downloads
274,764,090
• 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
274,764,090
Stars
700
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
6,592,283
Month daily avg
9,158,803
Momentum
-28.0%
((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
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
168 days ago
Total releases
22
Releases/year
2.0
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
10
Monthly downloads
274,764,090
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
39
 
Issue Burden
51.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
14.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
153d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 4.7M
Windows 30.1K
macOS 24.4K

Python Versions

3.11
38.7% 1.7M
3.10
26.3% 1.2M
3.12
15.6% 701.3K
3.13
13.9% 621.8K
3.7
5.5% 245.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
3.8M
2. SG SG
307.1K
3. GB GB
78.6K
4. KR KR
73.2K
5. DE DE
67.2K
6. HK HK
65.2K
7. IE IE
59.4K
8. IN IN
40.5K
9. CA CA
40.0K
10. AU AU
23.3K

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
June 20, 2015
Last Release
5 months ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
0.70.19
Total Releases
22
Contributors
10
Open PRs
3
Archived
No
Author
Mike McKerns
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp27 pp27 pp310 pp311 pp36 pp37 py3 py310 py311 py312 py313 py314 py35 py36 py37 py38 py39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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