openai/openai-python
The official Python library for the OpenAI API
31.8k stars · 8.1k forks · Python
Healthy
Healthy: actively maintained by 47 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.)
- A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.
Maintenance
PartialActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 145
- Human commits, 90 days
- 253
- Human commits, 365 days
- 354
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 42%
- Last commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (13 hours ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (13 hours ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 47
- Last release
- Oct 14, 2026 (1 day ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 1 hour
Responsiveness: of 29 recent issues, 72% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 18 days.
- Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 292 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 2
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 7
- Contributors
- 199
Top committers
- apcha-oai: 35% of commits
- jbeckwith-oai: 20% of commits
- markstuart-oai: 13% of commits
- marcuswood-oai: 7% of commits
- HAYDEN-OAI: 3% of commits
- Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Dec 3, 2022 to Dec 29, 2022: about 707 more stars than usual, peak 66 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 1, 2023 to Mar 23, 2023: about 2.8k more stars than usual, peak 555 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 24, 2023 to Aug 25, 2023: about 127 more stars than usual, peak 122 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Oct 4, 2023 to Oct 16, 2023: about 1.3k more stars than usual, peak 273 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Nov 6, 2023 to Dec 7, 2023: about 2.5k more stars than usual, peak 320 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 14, 2025 to Mar 16, 2025: about 666 more stars than usual, peak 320 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 8, 2025 to Aug 11, 2025: about 578 more stars than usual, peak 295 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
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
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
Packages
- openai (PYPI): latest 3.31.0, published Oct 14, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 7.8 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: openai/openai-python, deps.dev: PyPI openai
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- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
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