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XuehaiPan

nvitop

An interactive NVIDIA-GPU process viewer and beyond, the one-stop solution for GPU process management.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

nvitop has 398K monthly downloads and 7K GitHub stars. Version 1.7.0 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2021.

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

It is built on top of colorama, nvidia-ml-py and psutil. It is used by 29 tracked packages, including autotrain-advanced, cjm-system-monitor-nvidia and aitraining.

GitHub topics include nvidia, nvidia-smi and monitoring-tool.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (XuehaiPan/nvitop) with 2 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
13.4K
Week
88.5K
Month
398.0K
Stars
7.0K
Forks
237
Issues
13
Version
1.7.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
77
Adoption
65
Community
25
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
14 days ago
Monthly downloads
398,028
• 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
398,028
Stars
7,013
Stars per 1k downloads
17.62
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
12,637
Month daily avg
13,268
Momentum
-4.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=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
Apache-2.0 AND GPL-3.0-only
• 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
51 days ago
Total releases
88
Releases/year
16.3
• 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
5
Monthly downloads
398,028
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
35
 
Issue Burden
1.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
2.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 7.0K
Windows 114
macOS 34

Python Versions

3.12
58.0% 4.1K
3.10
18.6% 1.3K
3.11
16.6% 1.2K
3.13
4.2% 291
3.9
2.6% 181

Top Countries

1. US US
5.8K
2. CN CN
352
3. SG SG
300
4. GB GB
115
5. BR BR
102
6. KR KR
68
7. FR FR
58
8. DE DE
54
9. JP JP
52
10. HK HK
41

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0 AND GPL-3.0-only
First Release
February 8, 2021
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
1.7.0
Total Releases
88
Contributors
5
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
nvidia nvidia-smi NVML CUDA GPU top monitoring
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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