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Qiskit

qiskit

Qiskit is an open-source SDK for working with quantum computers at the level of extended quantum circuits, operators, and primitives.
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Shared Repository

This package shares its GitHub repository (Qiskit/qiskit) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
44.0K
Week
248.3K
Month
1.2M
Stars
7.4K
Forks
2.9K
Issues
861
Version
2.4.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
84
Adoption
70
Community
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,171,023
• 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
1,171,023
Stars
7,395
Stars per 1k downloads
6.31
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
35,468
Month daily avg
39,034
Momentum
-9.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
27 days ago
Total releases
202
Releases/year
23.1
• 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
661
Monthly downloads
1,171,023
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
116.4
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 18.3K
macOS 1.5K
Windows 1.3K

Python Versions

3.11
36.0% 6.7K
3.12
28.2% 5.3K
3.10
17.3% 3.2K
3.13
12.1% 2.3K
3.9
6.3% 1.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
17.2K
2. SG SG
983
3. IE IE
826
4. DE DE
324
5. IN IN
317
6. CN CN
310
7. FI FI
219
8. TW TW
162
9. NL NL
141
10. AU AU
137

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
4 weeks ago
Last Commit
2 days ago
Latest Version
2.4.1
Total Releases
202
Contributors
661
Open PRs
287
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp310 cp35 cp36 cp38 cp39 py3
Keywords
qiskit quantum circuit quantum computing quantum programming language quantum sdk
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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