Is safetensors safe to use?

safetensors has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.8.0). DepScope rates its health at 82/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of safetensors?

The latest version of safetensors is 0.8.0, released 2026-06-09.

Does safetensors have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of safetensors.

Is safetensors deprecated?

No, safetensors is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.8.0 (2026-06-09).

What are alternatives to safetensors?

Popular alternatives to safetensors in PyPI include: packaging, urllib3, requests, typing_extensions, charset-normalizer.

What license does safetensors use?

safetensors is licensed under Apache-2.0.

safetensors

pypiv0.8.0

License Apache-2.0permissive50 versions36 deps23,245,295 weekly dl

huggingface/safetensors

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 82/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

5/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

11

Contributors (12m)

23

Primary author dominance

26%

GitHub stars

3,712

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.48medium

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

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