No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
psycopg has 95.6M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 3.3.4 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2021.
It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in May 2026.
It is built on top of typing-extensions and tzdata. It is used by 1,323 tracked packages, including langgraph-checkpoint-postgres, pytest-postgresql and open-webui.
GitHub topics include database, development and postgresql.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
71
Adoption
80
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
8 days ago
Monthly downloads
95,602,935
•
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
95,602,935
Stars
2,434
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
3,221,424
Month daily avg
3,186,764
Momentum
+1.1%
((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
LGPL-3.0-only
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
65 days ago
Total releases
60
Releases/year
12.4
•
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
91
Monthly downloads
95,602,935
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
84
Issue Burden
15.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
72.3
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
36.3%
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
2.3M
Windows
23.7K
macOS
19.6K
Python Versions
3.12
36.6%
847.3K
3.13
34.1%
791.5K
3.11
14.6%
339.3K
3.14
8.2%
190.0K
3.10
6.5%
150.0K
Top Countries
1.
US
1.9M
US
2.
DE
85.4K
DE
3.
SG
72.0K
SG
4.
IE
46.9K
IE
5.
NL
33.0K
NL
6.
GB
27.7K
GB
7.
IN
21.4K
IN
8.
FR
21.4K
FR
9.
AU
13.3K
AU
10.
CA
12.3K
CA
Dependencies
2
- typing-extensions >=4.6
- tzdata
26 optional dependencies
- anyio[test]
- ast-comments[dev]
- black[dev]
- codespell[dev]
- cython-lint[dev]
- dnspython[dev]
- flake8[dev]
- furo[docs]
- isort[dev]
- isort-psycopg[dev]
- mypy[test]
- mypy[dev]
- pproxy[test]
- pre-commit[dev]
- psycopg-binary[binary]
- psycopg-c[c]
- psycopg-pool[pool]
- pytest[test]
- pytest-cov[test]
- pytest-randomly[test]
- sphinx[docs]
- sphinx-autobuild[docs]
- sphinx-autodoc-typehints[docs]
- types-setuptools[dev]
- types-shapely[dev]
- wheel[dev]
Used By
1323
- langgraph-checkpoint-postgres
- pytest-postgresql
- open-webui
- langchain-postgres
- dbos
- procrastinate
- airbyte
- pgspecial
- pgcli
- cuga
- dazzle-dsl
- postgres-mcp
- label-studio
- auth
- django-citext
- ixmp4
- abstra
- canvas
- holo-search-sdk
- aegra-api
- basic-memory
- pulpcore
- absurd-sdk
- control-arena
- chancy
- pgvector-haystack
- rds-proxy-password-rotation
- animica
- cgse-common
- oban
- openc3
- qubx
- channels-postgres
- aiida-core
- pgsu
- nucliadb
- fraiseql-confiture
- meltanolabs-target-postgres
- django-resaas
- awslabs-aurora-dsql-mcp-server
- orchestrator-core
- commonmeta-py
- ltcai
- pgmq
- quillsql
- intentkit
- django-cfg
- autogenstudio
- h4ckath0n
- amsterdam-schema-tools
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
LGPL-3.0-only
First Release
August 30, 2021
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
3.3.4
Total Releases
60
Contributors
91
Open PRs
26
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh