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valkey-io

valkey

Valkey Python client based on a fork of redis-py
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

valkey has 5.1M monthly downloads and 273 GitHub stars. Version 6.1.1 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2024.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Aug 2025.

It is used by 44 tracked packages, including django-valkey, openc3 and peak-sdk.

GitHub topics include valkey and valkey-client.

Downloads
Day
159.8K
Week
1.3M
Month
5.1M
Stars
273
Forks
48
Issues
31
Version
6.1.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
51
Adoption
90
Community
60
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
18 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,080,750
• 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
5,080,750
Stars
273
Stars per 1k downloads
0.05
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
187,146
Month daily avg
169,358
Momentum
+10.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=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
329 days ago
Total releases
16
Releases/year
7.8
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
48
Monthly downloads
5,080,750
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
70
 
Issue Burden
113.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
3.7
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
100.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
311d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 100.9K
Windows 200
macOS 174

Python Versions

3.9
47.4% 46.7K
3.12
22.9% 22.6K
3.13
14.1% 13.9K
3.11
10.4% 10.2K
3.14
5.3% 5.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
67.2K
2. DE DE
13.2K
3. FR FR
10.4K
4. IE IE
3.4K
5. GB GB
1.7K
6. ES ES
1.6K
7. NL NL
852
8. IN IN
772
9. SG SG
326
10. JP JP
263
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
June 14, 2024
Last Release
11 months ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
6.1.1
Total Releases
16
Contributors
48
Open PRs
20
Archived
No
Author
valkey-py authors
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Valkey key-value store database
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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