PyPI Stats
explosion

spacy

💫 Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
830.7K
Week
4.9M
Month
21.9M
Stars
33.5K
Forks
4.7K
Issues
162
Version
3.8.14

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
93
Adoption
70
Community
80
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
38 days ago
Monthly downloads
21,874,740
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
21,874,740
Stars
33,539
Stars per 1k downloads
1.53
• 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
694,119
Month daily avg
729,158
Momentum
-4.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<3.15,>=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
38 days ago
Total releases
224
Releases/year
19.8
• 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
687
Monthly downloads
21,874,740
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
88
 
Issue Burden
4.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
100.2
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
14.7%
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 399.2K
Windows 14.7K
macOS 6.3K

Python Versions

3.12
30.8% 115.4K
3.10
28.8% 107.8K
3.11
24.4% 91.5K
3.7
10.3% 38.6K
3.13
5.6% 21.1K

Top Countries

1. US US
318.2K
2. IE IE
36.5K
3. GB GB
9.4K
4. DE DE
6.1K
5. SG SG
5.8K
6. IN IN
5.8K
7. NL NL
5.5K
8. FR FR
3.9K
9. KR KR
3.8K
10. JP JP
2.9K

Dependencies

19
26 optional dependencies

Used By

1506
View all 1506 dependents

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
January 25, 2015
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
3.8.14
Total Releases
224
Contributors
687
Open PRs
41
Archived
No
Author
Explosion
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39
Topics
natural-language-processing data-science machine-learning python cython nlp artificial-intelligence ai spacy nlp-library neural-network neural-networks deep-learning named-entity-recognition entity-linking text-classification tokenization
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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