No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
psutil has 380.2M monthly downloads and 11K GitHub stars. Version 7.2.2 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2013.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2026.
It is used by 10,242 tracked packages, including sglang, browser-use and ipython.
GitHub topics include monitoring, cpu and memory.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 138 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
86
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
21 days ago
Monthly downloads
380,202,039
•
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
380,202,039
Stars
11,217
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
11,986,407
Month daily avg
12,673,401
Momentum
-5.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
159 days ago
Total releases
102
Releases/year
8.0
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
215
Monthly downloads
380,202,039
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
30.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.1
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
14.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
138d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
7.7M
Windows
307.9K
macOS
156.5K
Python Versions
3.12
27.2%
1.9M
3.11
27.0%
1.9M
3.10
22.2%
1.5M
3.13
14.4%
989.2K
3.9
9.3%
639.5K
Top Countries
1.
US
6.3M
US
2.
SG
219.2K
SG
3.
DE
208.9K
DE
4.
IE
206.1K
IE
5.
GB
139.4K
GB
6.
IN
136.8K
IN
7.
JP
102.0K
JP
8.
NL
96.6K
NL
9.
CA
77.5K
CA
10.
CN
67.2K
CN
Dependencies
0
37 optional dependencies
- abi3audit[dev]
- black[dev]
- check-manifest[dev]
- colorama[dev]
- coverage[dev]
- packaging[dev]
- psleak[dev]
- psleak[test]
- pylint[dev]
- pyperf[dev]
- pypinfo[dev]
- pyreadline3[dev]
- pytest[dev]
- pytest[test]
- pytest-cov[dev]
- pytest-instafail[dev]
- pytest-instafail[test]
- pytest-xdist[dev]
- pytest-xdist[test]
- pywin32[dev]
- pywin32[test]
- requests[dev]
- rstcheck[dev]
- ruff[dev]
- setuptools[dev]
- setuptools[test]
- sphinx[dev]
- sphinx-rtd-theme[dev]
- toml-sort[dev]
- twine[dev]
- validate-pyproject[dev]
- virtualenv[dev]
- vulture[dev]
- wheel[dev]
- wheel[test]
- wmi[dev]
- wmi[test]
Used By
10242
- sglang
- browser-use
- ipython
- ipykernel
- azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter
- pandas-gbq
- accelerate
- sagemaker-studio
- locust
- peft
- opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics
- opencensus-ext-azure
- ultralytics
- apache-airflow-core
- distributed
- dagster
- py7zr
- apache-airflow-task-sdk
- inspect-ai
- azure-cli-core
- openhands-ai
- orbax-checkpoint
- vllm
- unstructured
- akeyless
- acryl-datahub
- livekit-agents
- pyhmmer
- mirakuru
- flufl-lock
- seleniumbase
- rerun-sdk
- dvc
- unsloth
- marimo
- tilelang
- arize-phoenix
- crawl4ai
- oslo-utils
- torch-geometric
- fabric-analytics-notebook-plugin
- angr
- tensorflow-datasets
- pytest-celery
- codemagic-cli-tools
- pylink-square
- open-webui
- idf-component-manager
- sagemaker-serve
- openstacksdk
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
5 months ago
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Latest Version
7.2.2
Total Releases
102
Contributors
215
Open PRs
55
Archived
No
Author
Giampaolo Rodola
Python Versions
3
Wheels
cp26
cp27
cp310
cp313
cp314
cp33
cp34
cp35
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh