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openai-whisper

Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
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openai-whisper has 2.7M monthly downloads and 104K GitHub stars. Version 20250625 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2023.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2025.

It is built on top of more-itertools, numba and numpy. It is used by 302 tracked packages, including whisper-timestamped, stable-ts and abstract-hugpy.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (openai/whisper) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
91.1K
Week
607.2K
Month
2.7M
Stars
104.2K
Forks
12.7K
Issues
0
Version
20250625

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
70
Popularity
100
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
83 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,737,545
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
2,737,545
Stars
104,201
Stars per 1k downloads
38.06
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
86,748
Month daily avg
91,252
Momentum
-4.9%
((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
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
377 days ago
Total releases
19
Releases/year
5.5
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
224
Monthly downloads
2,737,545
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
87
 
Issue Burden
0.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
20.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
1.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
293d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 88.3K
Windows 7.7K
macOS 3.1K

Python Versions

3.10
62.2% 59.4K
3.12
19.9% 19.0K
3.11
9.2% 8.8K
3.13
5.1% 4.9K
3.14
3.5% 3.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
56.8K
2. SG SG
7.5K
3. CN CN
5.2K
4. CA CA
3.2K
5. PL PL
2.2K
6. DE DE
2.1K
7. SE SE
2.1K
8. AU AU
2.1K
9. IN IN
1.7K
10. NO NO
1.7K

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
January 17, 2023
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
20250625
Total Releases
19
Contributors
224
Open PRs
134
Archived
No
Author
OpenAI
Python Versions
3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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