PyPI Stats
celery

celery

Distributed Task Queue (development branch)
PyPI GitHub

Shared Repository

This package shares its GitHub repository (celery/celery) with 2 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
2.0M
Week
12.4M
Month
51.5M
Stars
28.4K
Forks
5.0K
Issues
670
Version
5.6.3

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
92
Adoption
80
Community
80
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
7 days ago
Monthly downloads
51,536,047
• 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
51,536,047
Stars
28,426
Stars per 1k downloads
0.55
• 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
1,777,546
Month daily avg
1,717,868
Momentum
+3.5%
((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
BSD-3-Clause
• 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
41 days ago
Total releases
226
Releases/year
13.3
• 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
1,259
Monthly downloads
51,536,047
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
92
 
Issue Burden
23.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
27.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
25.0%
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 836.1K
Windows 6.8K
macOS 5.1K

Python Versions

3.12
37.8% 298.8K
3.11
24.5% 193.7K
3.10
19.3% 152.4K
3.13
12.5% 98.9K
3.14
5.8% 46.1K

Top Countries

1. US US
670.2K
2. IN IN
20.4K
3. DE DE
19.1K
4. SG SG
12.9K
5. FR FR
11.6K
6. NL NL
10.4K
7. BR BR
10.0K
8. AU AU
9.2K
9. GB GB
8.9K
10. IE IE
7.2K

Dependencies

10
41 optional dependencies

Used By

1009
View all 1009 dependents

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
April 27, 2009
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
5.6.3
Total Releases
226
Contributors
1,259
Open PRs
106
Archived
No
Author
Ask Solem
Python Versions
3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py26 py27 py3 py33
Keywords
task job queue distributed messaging actor
Topics
python task-manager task-scheduler task-runner queue-workers queued-jobs queue-tasks amqp redis sqs sqs-queue python3 python-library redis-queue
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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