No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
tenacity has 428.2M monthly downloads and 9K GitHub stars. Version 9.1.4 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2016.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2026.
It is used by 4,430 tracked packages, including google-genai, langchain-core and lmnr.
GitHub topics include failure, retry and retry-library.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 145 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
80
Adoption
70
Community
60
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
428,182,384
•
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
428,182,384
Stars
8,698
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
•
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
13,386,663
Month daily avg
14,272,746
Momentum
-6.2%
((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
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
149 days ago
Total releases
60
Releases/year
6.1
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
94
Monthly downloads
428,182,384
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
58
Issue Burden
2.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
28.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
145d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
8.5M
Windows
181.8K
macOS
73.9K
Python Versions
3.12
30.6%
2.5M
3.11
27.1%
2.2M
3.13
19.2%
1.5M
3.10
15.3%
1.2M
3.9
7.9%
638.5K
Top Countries
1.
US
6.9M
US
2.
SG
346.1K
SG
3.
IE
225.9K
IE
4.
DE
190.9K
DE
5.
IN
137.5K
IN
6.
NL
121.8K
NL
7.
JP
88.2K
JP
8.
GB
80.5K
GB
9.
CA
76.6K
CA
10.
HK
62.8K
HK
Used By
4430
- google-genai
- langchain-core
- lmnr
- llama-cloud-services
- langchain-community
- swebench
- pyiceberg
- streamlit
- wikipedia-api
- pyathena
- google-adk
- apache-airflow-providers-google
- azure-kusto-ingest
- instructor
- llama-index-core
- mini-swe-agent
- openhands-sdk
- papermill
- chromadb
- pyvespa
- langgraph-api
- apache-airflow-core
- databricks-agents
- deepeval
- dlt
- apache-airflow-task-sdk
- inspect-ai
- openhands-ai
- dspy
- safety
- prefect-aws
- strands-agents-tools
- celery-redbeat
- retryhttp
- opik
- stamina
- voyageai
- harbor
- traceloop-sdk
- redisvl
- llama-index-legacy
- prefect-gcp
- luigi
- semantic-link-sempy
- uipath
- pytest-celery
- apache-airflow-providers-dbt-cloud
- elementary-data
- graphiti-core
- truss
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Apache 2.0
First Release
August 25, 2016
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
9.1.4
Total Releases
60
Contributors
94
Open PRs
19
Archived
No
Author
Julien Danjou
Python Versions
3
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