huggingface/transformers

🤗 Transformers: the model-definition framework for state-of-the-art machine learning models in text, vision, audio, and multimodal models, for both inference and training.

167.7k stars · 34.9k forks · Python

Healthy

Healthy: actively maintained by 133 people, no known risks.

Why

No rule fired.

What would change this

Partly checked: maintenance (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.)
A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.

Maintenance

Partial

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 337
Human commits, 90 days: 873
Human commits, 365 days: 3.3k
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 5%
Last commit: Oct 14, 2026 (20 hours ago)
Last human commit: Oct 14, 2026 (20 hours ago)
Authors, 90 days: 133
Last release: Oct 6, 2026 (8 days ago)
Median PR merge time: 11 hours

Responsiveness: of 29 recent issues, 55% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 2 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

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 476 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 12
Authors for 80% of commits: 44
Contributors: 437

Top committers

ydshieh: 11% of commits
tarekziade: 6% of commits
zucchini-nlp: 5% of commits
Cyrilvallez: 5% of commits
qgallouedec: 4% of commits

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

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Feb 12, 2019 to Feb 14, 2019: about 101 more stars than usual, peak 60 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 18, 2019 to Feb 21, 2019: about 254 more stars than usual, peak 97 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 16, 2019 to Jul 26, 2019: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 481 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 16, 2019 to Sep 19, 2019: about 581 more stars than usual, peak 354 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 26, 2019 to Oct 3, 2019: about 898 more stars than usual, peak 296 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 18, 2019 to Dec 19, 2019: about 178 more stars than usual, peak 185 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 13, 2020 to May 14, 2020: about 111 more stars than usual, peak 103 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 18, 2020 to May 20, 2020: about 309 more stars than usual, peak 206 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 16, 2020 to Oct 16, 2020: about 100 more stars than usual, peak 141 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 23, 2021 to Feb 24, 2021: about 169 more stars than usual, peak 173 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 14, 2021 to Apr 16, 2021: about 621 more stars than usual, peak 288 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 11, 2021 to Aug 12, 2021: about 282 more stars than usual, peak 223 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 11, 2021 to Sep 11, 2021: about 144 more stars than usual, peak 180 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 12, 2022 to May 15, 2022: about 476 more stars than usual, peak 206 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 11, 2022 to Aug 11, 2022: about 74 more stars than usual, peak 118 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 2, 2023 to Nov 3, 2023: about 136 more stars than usual, peak 170 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 10, 2024 to Jul 11, 2024: about 191 more stars than usual, peak 191 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 22, 2024 to Aug 22, 2024: about 120 more stars than usual, peak 165 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 13, 2025 to Sep 14, 2025: about 159 more stars than usual, peak 169 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 11, 2026 to Aug 12, 2026: about 374 more stars than usual, peak 324 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 13, 2026 to Sep 15, 2026: about 805 more stars than usual, peak 435 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 19, 2026 to Sep 19, 2026: about 71 more stars than usual, peak 109 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 10, 2026 to Oct 13, 2026: about 614 more stars than usual, peak 431 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

18 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

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
A year ago: Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

transformers (PYPI): latest 5.19.0, published Oct 6, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 6.4 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: huggingface/transformers, deps.dev: PyPI transformers

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
Oct 13, 2026: Healthy

Computed 20 hours ago · method 2026.10.2