No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
spacy has 24M monthly downloads and 34K GitHub stars. Version 3.8.14 supports Python <3.15,>=3.9, first published in 2015.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.
It is built on top of catalogue, confection and cymem. It is used by 1,631 tracked packages, including presidio-analyzer, unstructured and fastai.
GitHub topics include natural-language-processing, data-science and machine-learning.
Provenance Mismatch
This package's publish attestation (PEP 740) proves it builds from explosion/wheelmonger, not the linked explosion/spaCy. Stars and other GitHub metrics shown here come from the claimed repository.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
93
Adoption
100
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
48 days ago
Monthly downloads
23,953,243
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
23,953,243
Stars
33,711
Stars per 1k downloads
1.41
•
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
996,508
Month daily avg
798,441
Momentum
+24.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
<3.15,>=3.9
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
MIT
•
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
99 days ago
Total releases
224
Releases/year
19.6
•
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
687
Monthly downloads
23,953,243
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
88
Issue Burden
5.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
99.8
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
14.6%
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
453.3K
Windows
15.2K
macOS
7.4K
Python Versions
3.12
37.6%
158.2K
3.11
25.1%
105.4K
3.10
17.4%
73.0K
3.7
12.0%
50.3K
3.13
7.9%
33.4K
Top Countries
1.
US
657.2K
US
2.
DK
82.4K
DK
3.
IE
40.7K
IE
4.
GB
16.9K
GB
5.
SE
15.3K
SE
6.
DE
9.4K
DE
7.
SG
7.8K
SG
8.
CA
6.7K
CA
9.
IN
6.7K
IN
10.
NL
6.1K
NL
Dependencies
19
- catalogue <2.1.0,>=2.0.6
- confection <2.0.0,>=1.3.2
- cymem <2.1.0,>=2.0.2
- jinja2
- murmurhash <1.1.0,>=0.28.0
- numpy >=1.15.0
- packaging >=20.0
- preshed <3.1.0,>=3.0.2
- pydantic <3.0.0,>=2.0.0
- requests <3.0.0,>=2.13.0
- setuptools
- spacy-legacy <3.1.0,>=3.0.11
- spacy-loggers <2.0.0,>=1.0.0
- srsly <3.0.0,>=2.5.3
- thinc <8.4.0,>=8.3.12
- tqdm <5.0.0,>=4.38.0
- typer <1.0.0,>=0.3.0
- wasabi <1.2.0,>=0.9.1
- weasel <2.0.0,>=1.0.0
26 optional dependencies
- cupy[cuda]
- cupy-cuda100[cuda100]
- cupy-cuda101[cuda101]
- cupy-cuda102[cuda102]
- cupy-cuda110[cuda110]
- cupy-cuda111[cuda111]
- cupy-cuda112[cuda112]
- cupy-cuda113[cuda113]
- cupy-cuda114[cuda114]
- cupy-cuda115[cuda115]
- cupy-cuda116[cuda116]
- cupy-cuda117[cuda117]
- cupy-cuda11x[cuda11x]
- cupy-cuda12x[cuda12x]
- cupy-cuda80[cuda80]
- cupy-cuda90[cuda90]
- cupy-cuda91[cuda91]
- cupy-cuda92[cuda92]
- cupy-wheel[cuda-autodetect]
- natto-py[ko]
- pythainlp[th]
- spacy-lookups-data[lookups]
- spacy-transformers[transformers]
- sudachidict-core[ja]
- sudachipy[ja]
- thinc-apple-ops[apple]
Used By
1631
- presidio-analyzer
- unstructured
- fastai
- acryl-datahub-classify
- spacy-transformers
- tts
- negspacy
- audiocraft
- keyphrase-vectorizers
- allennlp-pvt-nightly
- karaoke-gen
- scispacy
- trinitty
- pyrush
- os-sys
- cypher-validator
- spacytextblob
- edsnlp
- presidio-image-redactor
- alibi
- capt-hook
- xtts-api-server
- yourmemory
- spacy-fastlang
- medspacy
- abstract-ocr
- graphrag-lexical-graph
- locationtagger
- opennmt-py
- contextualspellcheck
- naas-abi-core
- chatterbot
- scattertext
- pysentimiento
- spaczz
- olpai-volunteer-agent
- capture-metric
- pixlstash
- bpmn-rpa
- spacy-layout
- sentinelguard
- pyabsa
- jericho
- translate-package
- omniwatermask
- spacy-llm
- optillm
- aait
- aiecs
- quick-sentiments
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
January 25, 2015
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
3.8.14
Total Releases
224
Contributors
687
Open PRs
49
Archived
No
Author
Explosion
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp27
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp35
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh