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giampaolo

psutil

Cross-platform lib for process and system monitoring in Python
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This package shares its GitHub repository (giampaolo/psutil) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
14.4M
Week
84.9M
Month
359.4M
Stars
11.2K
Forks
1.5K
Issues
327
Version
7.2.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
86
Adoption
80
Community
80
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
14 days ago
Monthly downloads
359,367,300
• 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
359,367,300
Stars
11,172
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
12,131,065
Month daily avg
11,978,910
Momentum
+1.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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
BSD-3-Clause
• 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
114 days ago
Total releases
102
Releases/year
8.1
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
214
Monthly downloads
359,367,300
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
71
 
Issue Burden
29.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.1
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
14.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
99d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 7.5M
Windows 361.5K
macOS 173.6K

Python Versions

3.12
31.8% 2.1M
3.10
26.8% 1.8M
3.11
20.8% 1.4M
3.13
12.5% 823.3K
3.9
8.0% 529.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
6.1M
2. IE IE
202.7K
3. DE DE
183.9K
4. SG SG
142.5K
5. IN IN
137.0K
6. GB GB
128.9K
7. JP JP
103.5K
8. FR FR
98.7K
9. NL NL
93.2K
10. KR KR
86.2K

GitHub Topics

Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
September 28, 2013
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
7.2.2
Total Releases
102
Contributors
214
Open PRs
47
Archived
No
Author
Giampaolo Rodola
Python Versions
3
Wheels
cp26 cp27 cp310 cp313 cp314 cp33 cp34 cp35 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39 pp27
Keywords
ps top kill free lsof netstat nice tty ionice uptime taskmgr process df iotop iostat ifconfig taskset who pidof pmap smem pstree monitoring ulimit prlimit performance metrics agent observability
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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