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huggingface

sentence-transformers

State-of-the-Art Embeddings, Retrieval, and Reranking
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sentence-transformers has 30.1M monthly downloads and 19K GitHub stars. Version 5.6.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2019.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is built on top of huggingface-hub, numpy and scikit-learn. It is used by 2,826 tracked packages, including mteb, open-webui and keybert.

Downloads
Day
859.7K
Week
6.5M
Month
30.1M
Stars
18.9K
Forks
2.8K
Issues
1.3K
Version
5.6.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
89
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
10 days ago
Monthly downloads
30,099,282
• 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
30,099,282
Stars
18,875
Stars per 1k downloads
0.63
• 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
933,702
Month daily avg
1,003,309
Momentum
-6.9%
((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
20 days ago
Total releases
79
Releases/year
11.4
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
268
Monthly downloads
30,099,282
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
69
 
Issue Burden
67.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
9.5%
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 597.8K
Windows 36.1K
macOS 25.4K

Python Versions

3.12
38.3% 232.6K
3.11
28.3% 171.8K
3.13
13.0% 79.1K
3.10
12.3% 74.9K
3.9
8.1% 48.9K

Top Countries

1. US US
487.6K
2. IE IE
25.3K
3. IN IN
20.4K
4. DE DE
15.6K
5. SG SG
13.0K
6. CA CA
9.0K
7. NL NL
8.6K
8. FR FR
7.7K
9. GB GB
7.1K
10. ES ES
7.0K

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0
First Release
July 25, 2019
Last Release
3 weeks ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
5.6.0
Total Releases
79
Contributors
268
Open PRs
35
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Transformer Networks BERT XLNet sentence embedding PyTorch NLP deep learning
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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