Is psutil safe to use?

psutil has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (7.2.2). DepScope rates its health at 75/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of psutil?

The latest version of psutil is 7.2.2, released 2026-01-28.

Does psutil have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of psutil.

Is psutil deprecated?

No, psutil is actively maintained. Latest release: 7.2.2 (2026-01-28).

What are alternatives to psutil?

Popular alternatives to psutil in PyPI include: boto3, packaging, idna, certifi, urllib3.

What license does psutil use?

psutil is licensed under BSD-3-Clause.

psutil

pypiv7.2.2

Cross-platform lib for process and system monitoring.

License BSD-3-Clausepermissive104 versions1 maintainers38 deps

giampaolo/psutil

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 75/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

10/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

5.2/10

moderate

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

2

Contributors (12m)

2

Primary author dominance

98%

GitHub stars

11,142

single author dominance

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.52high

Download trend

stable(0%)

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

API access

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psutil

pypiv7.2.2

Cross-platform lib for process and system monitoring.

License BSD-3-Clausepermissive104 versions1 maintainers38 deps

giampaolo/psutil

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 75/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

10/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

5.2/10

moderate

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

2

Contributors (12m)

2

Primary author dominance

98%

GitHub stars

11,142

single author dominance

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.52high

Download trend

stable(0%)

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

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