Known Vulnerability
The current version has a known security vulnerability. Review the advisory and consider upgrading.
Security Vulnerability
PYSEC-2026-511
Qiskit allows arbitrary code execution decoding QPY format versions < 13
Source: osv.dev · Flagged: 2 weeks ago
Security Vulnerability
PYSEC-2026-1859
Malciously crafted QPY files can allows Remote Attackers to Cause Denial of Service in Qiskit
Source: osv.dev · Flagged: 2 weeks ago
Security Vulnerability
High
GHSA-fpmr-m242-xm7x
Malciously crafted QPY files can allows Remote Attackers to Cause Denial of Service in Qiskit
Source: osv.dev · Flagged: 2 weeks ago
Security Vulnerability
Critical
GHSA-6m2c-76ff-6vrf
Qiskit allows arbitrary code execution decoding QPY format versions < 13
Source: osv.dev · Flagged: 2 weeks ago
Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.
Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
>=3.8
Licence
Apache 2.0
Last Release
2 years ago
Author
Qiskit Development Team
First Release
December 19, 2018
Total Releases
73
Python Versions
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 743 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
84
Adoption
59
Community
100
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
6 days ago
Monthly downloads
86,240
•
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
86,240
Stars
7,883
Stars per 1k downloads
91.41
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
2,735
Month daily avg
2,875
Momentum
-4.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
•
Legacy
Supports 3.10 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
749 days ago
Total releases
73
Releases/year
9.3
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
708
Monthly downloads
86,240
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
80
Issue Burden
91.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
23.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
743d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
2.1K
Windows
11
macOS
7
Python Versions
3.10
31.0%
564
3.12
23.8%
433
3.11
19.8%
360
3.8
14.5%
264
3.9
11.0%
201
Top Countries
1.
US
1.6K
US
2.
JP
175
JP
3.
HK
144
HK
4.
CN
107
CN
5.
SG
99
SG
6.
IN
94
IN
7.
DE
66
DE
8.
IE
14
IE
9.
KR
13
KR
10.
MY
10
MY
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars *
Dependencies
11
- dill >=0.3
- numpy <3,>=1.17
- ply >=3.10
- psutil >=5
- python-dateutil >=2.8.0
- rustworkx >=0.13.0
- scipy >=1.5
- stevedore >=3.0.0
-
symengine
>=0.11
platform_machine == "x86_64" or platform_machine == "aarch64" or platform_machine == "ppc64le" or platform_machine == "amd64" or platform_machine == "arm64"
- sympy >=1.3
-
typing-extensions
python_version < "3.11"
20 optional dependencies
-
ipywidgets>=7.3.0[visualization]extra == "visualization"
-
ipywidgets>=7.3.0[all]extra == "all"
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matplotlib>=3.3[visualization]extra == "visualization"
-
matplotlib>=3.3[all]extra == "all"
-
pillow>=4.2.1[all]extra == "all"
-
pillow>=4.2.1[visualization]extra == "visualization"
-
pydot[visualization]extra == "visualization"
-
pydot[all]extra == "all"
-
pygments>=2.4[all]extra == "all"
-
pygments>=2.4[visualization]extra == "visualization"
-
pylatexenc>=1.4[visualization]extra == "visualization"
-
pylatexenc>=1.4[all]extra == "all"
-
python-constraint>=1.4[csp-layout-pass]extra == "csp-layout-pass"
-
python-constraint>=1.4[all]extra == "all"
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qiskit-qasm3-import>=0.1.0[qasm3-import]extra == "qasm3-import"
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qiskit-qasm3-import>=0.1.0[all]extra == "all"
-
seaborn>=0.9.0[all]extra == "all"
-
seaborn>=0.9.0[visualization]extra == "visualization"
-
z3-solver>=4.7[all]extra == "all"
-
z3-solver>=4.7[crosstalk-pass]extra == "crosstalk-pass"
Used By
18
- qiskit-qasm2 2.5K/mo
- classiq-interface 622/mo
- qiskit-jku-provider 409/mo
- qiskit-qcware 253/mo
- staged-primitives 131/mo
- qctrl-qiskit 119/mo
- qiskit-aqt-provider-rc 114/mo
- haqc 107/mo
- quantum-xyz 85/mo
- quantum-linear-solvers 83/mo
Repository details
GitHub Topics
Data and sources
Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh