No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pillow has 501.1M monthly downloads and 14K GitHub stars. Version 12.3.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2010.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2026.
It is used by 19,067 tracked packages, including sglang, matplotlib and browser-use.
GitHub topics include c, cross-platform and pil.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
87
Adoption
80
Community
80
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2 days ago
Monthly downloads
501,146,730
•
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
501,146,730
Stars
13,659
Stars per 1k downloads
0.03
•
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
17,393,243
Month daily avg
16,704,891
Momentum
+4.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=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-CMU
•
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
5 days ago
Total releases
13
Releases/year
0.8
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
435
Monthly downloads
501,146,730
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
93
Issue Burden
4.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
13.3
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
17.7%
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
11.7M
Windows
656.6K
macOS
273.0K
Python Versions
3.12
35.7%
4.0M
3.13
23.5%
2.6M
3.11
20.7%
2.3M
3.10
13.9%
1.6M
3.14
6.1%
689.7K
Top Countries
1.
US
9.5M
US
2.
IN
575.6K
IN
3.
SG
539.1K
SG
4.
DE
348.9K
DE
5.
CN
237.9K
CN
6.
GB
203.1K
GB
7.
IE
183.6K
IE
8.
JP
183.0K
JP
9.
NL
122.9K
NL
10.
HK
108.3K
HK
Dependencies
0
25 optional dependencies
- arro3-compute[test-arrow]
- arro3-core[test-arrow]
- coverage[tests]
- defusedxml[tests]
- defusedxml[xmp]
- furo[docs]
- markdown2[tests]
- nanoarrow[test-arrow]
- olefile[docs]
- olefile[fpx]
- olefile[mic]
- olefile[tests]
- packaging[tests]
- pyarrow[test-arrow]
- pytest[tests]
- pytest-cov[tests]
- pytest-timeout[tests]
- pytest-xdist[tests]
- setuptools[tests]
- sphinx[docs]
- sphinx-autobuild[docs]
- sphinx-copybutton[docs]
- sphinx-inline-tabs[docs]
- sphinxext-opengraph[docs]
- trove-classifiers[tests]
Used By
19067
- sglang
- matplotlib
- browser-use
- reportlab
- python-pptx
- pdfplumber
- imageio
- torchvision
- weasyprint
- scikit-image
- streamlit
- tensorboard
- pytesseract
- cairosvg
- gradio
- llama-index-core
- openhands-sdk
- fpdf2
- fastembed
- pillow-heif
- bokeh
- rdkit
- ultralytics
- pikepdf
- pi-heif
- diffusers
- mistral-common
- moviepy
- openhands-ai
- browsergym-core
- apache-beam
- roboflow
- vllm
- svglib
- strands-agents-tools
- docling-core
- fireworks-ai
- wordcloud
- xhtml2pdf
- easyocr
- docling-parse
- voyageai
- rapidocr
- docling-ibm-models
- rembg
- rerun-sdk
- pyscreeze
- pymatting
- apache-superset
- wagtail
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT-CMU
First Release
July 31, 2010
Last Release
6 days ago
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
12.3.0
Total Releases
13
Contributors
435
Open PRs
66
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp26
cp27
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp315
cp32
cp33
cp34
cp35
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
pp253
pp256
pp257
pp258
pp259
pp260
pp271
pp272
pp273
pp310
pp311
pp3510
pp36
pp360
pp37
pp370
pp371
pp372
pp373
pp38
pp39
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh