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waitress

Waitress - A WSGI server for Python 3
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Download Stats
Monthly downloads
6.7M
Weekly downloads
1.6M
GitHub stars
1.6K

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
3.0.2
Requires Python
>=3.9.0
Licence
ZPL 2.1
Last Release
1 year ago
Author
Zope Foundation and Contributors
First Release
December 30, 2011
Total Releases
52
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details

The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
67
Adoption
80
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
18 days ago
Monthly downloads
6,659,974
• 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
6,659,974
Stars
1,601
Stars per 1k downloads
0.24
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
230,858
Month daily avg
221,999
Momentum
+4.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9.0
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
• Legacy
Supports 3.10 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
ZPL 2.1
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
698 days ago
Total releases
52
Releases/year
3.5
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
67
Monthly downloads
6,659,974
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
63
 
Issue Burden
11.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
35.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
680d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 107.6K
Windows 12.0K
macOS 2.2K

Python Versions

3.12
36.9% 52.2K
3.9
19.7% 27.9K
3.8
18.8% 26.5K
3.11
14.5% 20.5K
3.14
10.1% 14.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
111.6K
2. DE DE
7.5K
3. NL NL
5.7K
4. IN IN
5.5K
5. SG SG
5.4K
6. JP JP
5.2K
7. FR FR
4.8K
8. GB GB
4.7K
9. IE IE
4.6K
10. AU AU
4.3K

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

0
6 optional dependencies

Used By

535
View all 535 dependents

Repository details

Forks
190
Issues
19
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Contributors
67
Open PRs
11
Archived
No

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
waitress wsgi server http
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