No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
paramiko has 149.7M monthly downloads and 10K GitHub stars. Version 5.0.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2010.
It is stably maintained under a copyleft license, last released in May 2026.
It is built on top of bcrypt, cryptography and invoke. It is used by 1,890 tracked packages, including fabric, apache-airflow-providers-ssh and scp.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
85
Adoption
70
Community
90
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
58 days ago
Monthly downloads
149,681,866
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
149,681,866
Stars
9,790
Stars per 1k downloads
0.07
•
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
4,845,400
Month daily avg
4,989,396
Momentum
-2.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
LGPL-2.1
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
58 days ago
Total releases
151
Releases/year
9.6
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
139
Monthly downloads
149,681,866
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
76
Issue Burden
90.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
6.7%
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
3.4M
Windows
41.4K
macOS
5.4K
Python Versions
3.11
34.6%
1.1M
3.12
28.3%
893.3K
3.10
24.5%
773.0K
3.9
6.5%
205.8K
3.13
6.1%
191.2K
Top Countries
1.
US
2.1M
US
2.
IE
224.3K
IE
3.
NL
149.4K
NL
4.
DE
122.7K
DE
5.
GB
99.3K
GB
6.
IN
79.2K
IN
7.
SG
75.9K
SG
8.
AU
71.9K
AU
9.
JP
59.0K
JP
10.
CA
52.2K
CA
Dependencies
4
- bcrypt >=3.2
- cryptography >=3.3
- invoke >=2.0
- pynacl >=1.5
Used By
1890
- fabric
- apache-airflow-providers-ssh
- scp
- sagemaker-core
- azure-cli
- apache-airflow-providers-sftp
- apache-superset
- tentaclio
- azureml-core
- pytest-sftpserver
- sagemaker-train
- runpod
- skypilot
- maggma
- netmiko
- pwntools
- coiled
- ncclient
- mosaicml-streaming
- junos-eznc
- sftpserver
- yang-connector
- juju
- pyinfra
- netconf-console2
- composio-core
- voxel51-eta
- napalm
- sftpretty
- skypilot-nightly
- fab-classic
- endesive
- demisto-sdk
- edx-enterprise
- compliance-trestle
- fabric2
- dstack
- python-rrmngmnt
- netconf-client
- python-gvm
- mocksftp
- pulsar-galaxy-lib
- dagster-ssh
- pyhelper-utils
- assemblyline
- cg
- cua-sandbox
- azure-cli-acs
- tempest
- turbossh
Package Information
License
LGPL-2.1
First Release
October 27, 2010
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
5.0.0
Total Releases
151
Contributors
139
Open PRs
291
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh