No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pyodbc has 43M monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 5.3.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2015.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Oct 2025.

It is used by 635 tracked packages, including dbt-fabric, apache-airflow-providers-odbc and aioodbc.

GitHub topics include database, odbc and dbapi.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (mkleehammer/pyodbc) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
1.4M
Week
9.9M
Month
43.0M
Stars
3.1K
Forks
571
Issues
41
Version
5.3.0

Package Insights

Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
76
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
29 days ago
Monthly downloads
43,031,950
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
43,031,950
Stars
3,081
Stars per 1k downloads
0.07
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
1,415,764
Month daily avg
1,434,398
Momentum
-1.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
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
262 days ago
Total releases
65
Releases/year
5.8
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
53
Monthly downloads
43,031,950
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
88
 
Issue Burden
13.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
31.5
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
9.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
232d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 958.4K
Windows 33.6K
macOS 1.3K

Python Versions

3.11
36.7% 321.4K
3.10
26.4% 231.1K
3.12
22.9% 200.4K
3.13
7.9% 69.6K
3.14
6.1% 53.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
744.6K
2. NL NL
89.5K
3. IE IE
46.2K
4. SG SG
20.1K
5. GB GB
15.8K
6. IN IN
12.2K
7. DE DE
10.4K
8. AU AU
8.5K
9. TR TR
6.7K
10. CA CA
6.4K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
April 25, 2015
Last Release
8 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
5.3.0
Total Releases
65
Contributors
53
Open PRs
17
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
cp27 cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp34 cp35 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh