ggml-org/whisper.cpp

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

323

Human commits, 90 days

621

Human commits, 365 days

2.1k

Bot share of commits, 365 days

0%

Last commit

Oct 12, 2026 (3 days ago)

Last human commit

Oct 12, 2026 (3 days ago)

Authors, 90 days

178

Last release

Oct 6, 2026 (8 days ago)

Median PR merge time

12 hours

Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 23% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 23 days.

• Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
• Authors in the last 90 days are counted from the sampled commits only.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

500 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

20

Authors for 80% of commits

78

Contributors

445

Top committers

• ggerganov: 13% of commits
• am17an: 3% of commits
• danbev: 3% of commits
• 0cc4m: 3% of commits
• wanghqc: 3% of commits

• Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Nov 7, 2022 to Nov 10, 2022: about 176 more stars than usual, peak 113 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Nov 19, 2022 to Nov 24, 2022: about 330 more stars than usual, peak 138 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 27, 2022 to Dec 2, 2022: about 574 more stars than usual, peak 216 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Dec 7, 2022 to Dec 15, 2022: about 1.6k more stars than usual, peak 683 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Jan 23, 2023 to Jan 25, 2023: about 200 more stars than usual, peak 146 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 2, 2023 to Feb 2, 2023: about 87 more stars than usual, peak 113 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 6, 2023 to Mar 23, 2023: about 3.5k more stars than usual, peak 499 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 6, 2023 to Jun 8, 2023: about 201 more stars than usual, peak 149 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 21, 2023 to Aug 22, 2023: about 114 more stars than usual, peak 118 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 2, 2023 to Nov 10, 2023: about 528 more stars than usual, peak 253 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 23, 2024 to Feb 23, 2024: about 52 more stars than usual, peak 78 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 13, 2024 to Apr 17, 2024: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 608 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 7, 2026 to Jul 10, 2026: about 161 more stars than usual, peak 88 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 21, 2026 to Jul 22, 2026: about 190 more stars than usual, peak 157 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

• 6 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

• The star history looks organic.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

MIT (OSI-approved)

A year ago

MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

Sources: GitHub: ggml-org/whisper.cpp