No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
rdkit has 9.7M monthly downloads and 4K GitHub stars. Version 2026.3.3, first published in 2022.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of numpy and pillow. It is used by 834 tracked packages, including mordredcommunity, pdbeccdutils and descriptastorus.
GitHub topics include cheminformatics, c-plus-plus and rdkit.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
79
Adoption
100
Community
90
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
6 days ago
Monthly downloads
9,650,628
•
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
9,650,628
Stars
3,503
Stars per 1k downloads
0.36
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
670,220
Month daily avg
321,688
Momentum
+108.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
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
32 days ago
Total releases
45
Releases/year
11.1
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
235
Monthly downloads
9,650,628
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
100
Issue Burden
9.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
405.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
22.9%
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
335.4K
macOS
1.5K
Windows
1.4K
Python Versions
3.12
93.8%
315.0K
3.11
2.3%
7.7K
3.13
2.0%
6.8K
3.10
1.6%
5.4K
3.14
0.3%
1.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
639.1K
US
2.
DK
82.3K
DK
3.
SE
14.7K
SE
4.
CN
2.5K
CN
5.
SG
2.0K
SG
6.
NL
922
NL
7.
BE
742
BE
8.
IE
549
IE
9.
DE
512
DE
10.
GB
510
GB
Used By
834
- mordredcommunity
- pdbeccdutils
- descriptastorus
- chemprop
- aimsim-core
- dimorphite-dl
- pytdc
- chembl-structure-pipeline
- datamol
- lmdeploy
- deepchem
- matchms
- boltz
- moleculekit
- posebusters
- hbat
- scikit-fingerprints
- e3fp
- workbench
- moleditpy
- ord-schema
- molify
- alphafold3-pytorch
- molbloom
- biopygeon
- atomworks
- useful-rdkit-utils
- moleditpy-linux
- exmol
- synspace
- protenix
- mols2grid
- mmpdb
- admet-ai
- medchem
- alphabase
- myopic-mces
- stk
- csp5
- fpsim2
- atomlite
- molfeat
- drfp
- boltzgen
- aizynthfinder
- pysec2pri
- fcd
- cuik-molmaker-pin
- reaction-utils
- perovskite-solar-cell-database
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
June 17, 2022
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
6 days ago
Latest Version
2026.3.3
Total Releases
45
Contributors
235
Open PRs
30
Archived
No
Author
Christopher Kuenneth
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp37
cp38
cp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh