openai/whisper

Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision

110.5k stars · 13.4k forks · Python

Healthy

Healthy: maintained by 3 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

Complete

Steady

Human commits, 30 days: 0
Human commits, 90 days: 3
Human commits, 365 days: 5
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 0%
Last commit: Aug 31, 2026 (1 month ago)
Last human commit: Aug 31, 2026 (1 month ago)
Authors, 90 days: 3
Last release: Jun 26, 2025 (1 year ago)
Median PR merge time: 16 days

Too few recent issues to measure responsiveness.

Issues are disabled, so response time is not measured.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 5 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 3
Authors for 80% of commits: 4
Contributors: 84

Top committers

adwaitm1301: 20% of commits
Dorijan10: 20% of commits
hintz-openai: 20% of commits
Kayvan-Zahiri: 20% of commits
mcgrew-oai: 20% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

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

Bursts

Nov 7, 2022 to Nov 9, 2022: about 228 more stars than usual, peak 193 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Nov 15, 2022 to Nov 17, 2022: about 330 more stars than usual, peak 205 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Dec 6, 2022 to Dec 9, 2022: about 660 more stars than usual, peak 285 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Mar 1, 2023 to Mar 10, 2023: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 398 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 19, 2023 to Aug 19, 2023: about 69 more stars than usual, peak 125 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Nov 6, 2023 to Nov 20, 2023: about 1.7k more stars than usual, peak 383 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests, a new release.
Nov 21, 2023 to Nov 28, 2023: about 906 more stars than usual, peak 323 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 14, 2024 to Mar 15, 2024: about 150 more stars than usual, peak 188 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Oct 2, 2024 to Oct 4, 2024: about 310 more stars than usual, peak 243 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 21, 2026 to May 28, 2026: about 515 more stars than usual, peak 237 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 27, 2026 to Jul 30, 2026: about 266 more stars than usual, peak 144 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

9 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: MIT (OSI-approved)
A year ago: MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

openai-whisper (PYPI): latest 20250625.0.0, published Jun 26, 2025
Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 4.2 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: openai/whisper, deps.dev: PyPI openai-whisper

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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