bitsandbytes-foundation/bitsandbytes
Accessible large language models via k-bit quantization for PyTorch.
8.5k stars · 940 forks · Python
Healthy
Healthy: maintained by 9 people in the last 90 days, no known risks.
Why
No rule fired.
What would change this
- A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.
Maintenance
CompleteSteady
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 31
- Human commits, 365 days
- 207
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 2%
- Last commit
- Sep 3, 2026 (1 month ago)
- Last human commit
- Sep 3, 2026 (1 month ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 9
- Last release
- Aug 27, 2026 (1 month ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 3 hours
Responsiveness: of 26 recent issues, 54% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 8 hours.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 207 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 3
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 6
- Contributors
- 130
Top committers
- matthewdouglas: 38% of commits
- TimDettmers: 12% of commits
- Abdennacer-Badaoui: 9% of commits
- sstamenk: 9% of commits
- jiqing-feng: 7% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Jan 3, 2023 to Jan 4, 2023: about 23 more stars than usual, peak 15 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 8, 2023 to Mar 10, 2023: about 68 more stars than usual, peak 39 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 18, 2025 to Jul 25, 2025: about 127 more stars than usual, peak 36 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- The star history was reset at some point, so earlier stars aren't counted.
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
- The star history has a zero run of 26 weeks or more, so the analysis starts after it.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
- bitsandbytes (PYPI): latest 0.50.2, published Aug 27, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
Sources: GitHub: bitsandbytes-foundation/bitsandbytes, deps.dev: PyPI bitsandbytes
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