No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
python-backoff has 5.4M monthly downloads and 25 GitHub stars. Version 2.3.1 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2025.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Dec 2025.
It is used by 5 tracked packages, including singer-sdk, python-bsblan and wled.
GitHub topics include retry and backoff.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 182 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
70
Popularity
22
Adoption
70
Community
15
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
16 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,427,026
•
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
5,427,026
Stars
25
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
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
179,147
Month daily avg
180,901
Momentum
-1.0%
((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
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
199 days ago
Total releases
5
Releases/year
7.5
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
Unknown
Monthly downloads
5,427,026
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
Contributor count is missing — this usually indicates the package has no linked GitHub repository.
Engagement
19
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
0.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
182d
PR Velocity
-
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
169.4K
Windows
84
macOS
39
Python Versions
3.13
90.9%
154.1K
3.11
6.1%
10.3K
3.10
1.1%
1.9K
3.14
0.9%
1.6K
3.12
0.9%
1.5K
Top Countries
1.
US
166.7K
US
2.
GB
1.5K
GB
3.
CA
419
CA
4.
NL
340
NL
5.
AU
177
AU
6.
IE
89
IE
7.
CH
76
CH
8.
SG
46
SG
9.
DE
37
DE
10.
RU
36
RU
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
November 4, 2025
Last Release
6 months ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
2.3.1
Total Releases
5
Contributors
0
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
3.15
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh