No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
qiskit has 1.2M monthly downloads and 8K GitHub stars. Version 2.5.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2017.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2026.
It is built on top of dill, numpy and rustworkx. It is used by 506 tracked packages, including qiskit-aer, qiskit-ibm-runtime and ibm-quantum-schemas.
GitHub topics include quantum-computing, qiskit and sdk.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
84
Adoption
70
Community
100
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,193,789
•
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
1,193,789
Stars
7,556
Stars per 1k downloads
6.33
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
37,143
Month daily avg
39,793
Momentum
-6.7%
((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
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
4 days ago
Total releases
206
Releases/year
23.2
•
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
674
Monthly downloads
1,193,789
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
111.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
22.8%
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
19.0K
Windows
1.7K
macOS
1.5K
Python Versions
3.11
32.2%
6.8K
3.12
30.5%
6.5K
3.10
19.5%
4.1K
3.13
11.8%
2.5K
3.14
6.0%
1.3K
Top Countries
1.
US
17.7K
US
2.
IE
981
IE
3.
SG
654
SG
4.
DE
383
DE
5.
GB
363
GB
6.
IN
345
IN
7.
NL
223
NL
8.
TW
205
TW
9.
FR
204
FR
10.
KR
175
KR
Dependencies
6
12 optional dependencies
- matplotlib[visualization]
- pillow[visualization]
- pydot[visualization]
- pylatexenc[visualization]
- python-constraint[csp-layout-pass]
- qiskit[all]
- qiskit-qasm3-import[qasm3-import]
- seaborn[visualization]
- symengine[qpy-compat]
- sympy[visualization]
- sympy[qpy-compat]
- z3-solver[crosstalk-pass]
Used By
506
- qiskit-aer
- qiskit-ibm-runtime
- ibm-quantum-schemas
- samplomatic
- qiskit-connector
- qiskit-qasm3-import
- qiskit-experiments
- qiskit-algorithms
- qiskit-ionq
- qiskit-nature
- pytket-qiskit
- qiskit-ibm-experiment
- mthree
- qiskit-machine-learning
- qiskit-optimization
- iqm-qiskit-qir
- ffsim
- qiskit-addon-utils
- qrisp
- qiskit-addon-sqd
- pennylane-qiskit
- qiskit-quimb
- qiskit-braket-provider
- iqm-benchmarks
- qiskit-ibm-provider
- qiskit-serverless
- qpi-client
- mqt-qmap
- qpi-driver
- qiskit-addon-obp
- qcompile
- qiskit-finance
- mqt-ddsim
- qiskit-superstaq
- qubasic
- qiskit-aer-gpu
- qiskit-addon-aqc-tensor
- qiskit-addon-mpf
- qiskit-quantuminspire
- qoro-divi
- qiskit-iqm
- mqt-bench
- carcara
- iqm-qaoa
- unified-quantum
- qhub-quantum
- laboneq-applications
- aegis-q
- qoqo-qiskit-devices
- quanta-lang
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Apache-2.0
First Release
August 24, 2017
Last Release
5 days ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
2.5.0
Total Releases
206
Contributors
674
Open PRs
281
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp310
cp38
cp39
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh