No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
qutip has 280K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 5.3.0 supports Python 3.11+, first published in 2013.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.
It is built on top of numpy, packaging and scipy. It is used by 81 tracked packages, including qutip-qip, scqubits and qat-hardware.
GitHub topics include qutip, quantum-toolbox and quantum.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
75
Adoption
54
Community
100
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4 days ago
Monthly downloads
280,360
•
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
280,360
Stars
2,038
Stars per 1k downloads
7.27
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
7,601
Month daily avg
9,345
Momentum
-18.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.11
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
BSD-3-Clause
•
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
45 days ago
Total releases
43
Releases/year
3.4
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
193
Monthly downloads
280,360
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
96
Issue Burden
41.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
20.1
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
25.1%
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
4.5K
macOS
200
Windows
142
Python Versions
3.11
53.0%
2.4K
3.12
24.9%
1.1K
3.13
12.1%
542
3.10
5.0%
226
3.9
5.0%
225
Top Countries
1.
US
3.7K
US
2.
DE
313
DE
3.
SG
192
SG
4.
IE
159
IE
5.
FR
108
FR
6.
CH
54
CH
7.
CN
51
CN
8.
NL
48
NL
9.
KR
37
KR
10.
TW
33
TW
Dependencies
3
14 optional dependencies
- cvxopt[semidefinite]
- cvxpy[semidefinite]
- cython[runtime-compilation]
- filelock[runtime-compilation]
- ipython[ipython]
- loky[extras]
- matplotlib[graphics]
- mpi4py[mpi]
- mpmath[extras]
- pytest[tests]
- pytest-rerunfailures[tests]
- qutip[full]
- setuptools[runtime-compilation]
- tqdm[extras]
Used By
81
- qutip-qip
- scqubits
- qat-hardware
- dynamiqs
- pulser-simulation
- sequence
- pyepr-quantum
- qat-analog
- quantum-metal
- qutip-qtrl
- hybridsuperqubits
- qutip-qoc
- qutip-jax
- qat-compiler
- qutip-cuquantum
- weylchamber
- qpandalite
- extendedstim
- qutip-bundling
- bosonic-qiskit
- qsttoolkit
- maxwellbloch
- sqcircuit
- quaccatoo
- lbl-qubic-emulator
- krotov
- qutip-sampler
- quantumcatch
- chalmers-qubit
- trajectree
- qflux
- superspinsim
- atomcalc
- jftools
- ptetools
- dyberforge
- ttheom
- rydopt
- struqture-qutip-interface
- jaxquantum
- qrem
- qubitos
- freq-allocator
- qwak-sim
- qdna
- yaqq
- qocttools
- qforge
- clifforder
- qse
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
October 31, 2013
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
5.3.0
Total Releases
43
Contributors
193
Open PRs
24
Archived
No
Author
Alexander Pitchford, Paul D. Nation, Robert J. Johansson, Chris Granade, Arne Grimsmo, Nathan Shammah, Shahnawaz Ahmed, Neill Lambert, Eric Giguère, Boxi Li, Jake Lishman, Simon Cross
Python Versions
3
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh