No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pycasbin has 1.7M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 2.8.0 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2024.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2026.
It is built on top of simpleeval and wcmatch. It is used by 22 tracked packages, including sqlalchemy-adapter, casbin-async-sqlalchemy-adapter and casbin-django-orm-adapter.
GitHub topics include casbin, pycasbin and access-control.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
55
Popularity
68
Adoption
60
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
155 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,734,247
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
1,734,247
Stars
1,746
Stars per 1k downloads
1.01
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
46,458
Month daily avg
57,808
Momentum
-19.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
Apache 2.0
•
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
155 days ago
Total releases
19
Releases/year
11.2
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
85
Monthly downloads
1,734,247
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
60
Issue Burden
2.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
39.5%
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
24.7K
macOS
59
Windows
24
Python Versions
3.10
79.2%
19.5K
3.12
8.1%
2.0K
3.13
6.5%
1.6K
3.11
4.8%
1.2K
3.14
1.5%
363
Top Countries
1.
US
19.1K
US
2.
ES
2.3K
ES
3.
CA
1.1K
CA
4.
SE
534
SE
5.
IE
231
IE
6.
SG
218
SG
7.
FI
214
FI
8.
DE
210
DE
9.
NL
209
NL
10.
IS
192
IS
Dependencies
2
- simpleeval >=1.0.3
- wcmatch >=10.1
Used By
22
- sqlalchemy-adapter
- casbin-async-sqlalchemy-adapter
- casbin-django-orm-adapter
- openedx-authz
- casbin-postgresql-watcher
- flask-authz
- casbin-pymongo-adapter
- casbin-redis-adapter
- django-casbin-auth
- fastapi-casbin-auth
- agstack
- redis-watcher
- dingent
- wy-qcos
- casbin-async-postgres-watcher
- django-content-access-control
- casbin-rabbitmq-watcher
- sqlobject-adapter
- casbin-async-django-orm-adapter
- etcd-watcher
- capebase
- sanic-authz
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Apache 2.0
First Release
October 25, 2024
Last Release
5 months ago
Last Commit
5 months ago
Latest Version
2.8.0
Total Releases
19
Contributors
85
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh