No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
stockfish has 5M monthly downloads and 46 GitHub stars. Version 5.2.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2016.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2026.
It is used by 8 tracked packages, including chessai-stockfish, stockfish-mcp and chessminal.
GitHub topics include stockfish, chess and chess-engine.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- High bus factor: only 1 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
34
Adoption
100
Community
30
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
25 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,041,866
•
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
5,041,866
Stars
46
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
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
313,732
Month daily avg
168,062
Momentum
+86.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
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
80 days ago
Total releases
52
Releases/year
5.0
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
1
Monthly downloads
5,041,866
•
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
51
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
8.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
300.1K
Windows
78
macOS
12
Python Versions
3.12
99.5%
298.8K
3.13
0.4%
1.1K
3.11
0.1%
259
3.10
0.0%
69
3.14
0.0%
47
Top Countries
1.
US
299.7K
US
2.
IN
158
IN
3.
SG
130
SG
4.
HK
48
HK
5.
CA
40
CA
6.
AU
20
AU
7.
ES
16
ES
8.
SE
14
SE
9.
DE
13
DE
10.
NO
13
NO
Dependencies
0
5 optional dependencies
- mypy[dev]
- pre-commit[dev]
- pytest[dev]
- pytest-cov[dev]
- ruff[dev]
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
February 5, 2016
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Latest Version
5.2.0
Total Releases
52
Contributors
1
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh