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netmiko

Multi-vendor library to simplify Paramiko SSH connections to network devices
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

netmiko has 1.1M monthly downloads and 4K GitHub stars. Version 4.7.0 supports Python <4.0,>=3.10, first published in 2015.

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

It is built on top of ntc-templates, paramiko and pyserial. It is used by 118 tracked packages, including napalm, nornir-netmiko and nornir-nautobot.

Downloads
Day
39.8K
Week
267.7K
Month
1.1M
Stars
4.2K
Forks
1.4K
Issues
63
Version
4.7.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
80
Adoption
80
Community
90
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
15 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,138,158
• 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
1,138,158
Stars
4,206
Stars per 1k downloads
3.70
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
38,238
Month daily avg
37,939
Momentum
+0.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4.0,>=3.10
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
56 days ago
Total releases
47
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
252
Monthly downloads
1,138,158
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
86
 
Issue Burden
15.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
29.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
18.2%
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 25.7K
Windows 577
macOS 93

Python Versions

3.11
31.2% 7.5K
3.12
25.4% 6.1K
3.10
17.5% 4.2K
3.9
13.5% 3.2K
3.13
12.4% 3.0K

Top Countries

1. US US
15.5K
2. NL NL
3.0K
3. GB GB
1.7K
4. CH CH
885
5. DE DE
677
6. FR FR
669
7. IN IN
555
8. HK HK
549
9. IL IL
357
10. DK DK
341

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
October 18, 2015
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
4.7.0
Total Releases
47
Contributors
252
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Kirk Byers
Python Versions
3 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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