Is safetensors safe to use?

safetensors has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.7.0). DepScope rates its health at 74/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of safetensors?

The latest version of safetensors is 0.7.0, released 2025-11-19.

Does safetensors have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of safetensors.

Is safetensors deprecated?

No, safetensors is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.7.0 (2025-11-19).

What are alternatives to safetensors?

Popular alternatives to safetensors in Cargo include: hashbrown, getrandom, windows-sys, syn.

What license does safetensors use?

safetensors is licensed under Apache-2.0.

safetensors

cargov0.7.0

Provides functions to read and write safetensors which aim to be safer than their PyTorch counterpart. The format is 8 bytes which is an unsized int, being the size of a JSON header, the JSON header refers the `dtype` the `shape` and `data_offsets` which are the offsets for the values in the rest of the file.

License Apache-2.0permissive21 versions0 deps5,217,202 weekly dl

huggingface/safetensors

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 74/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

15/25

maintenance

17/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

5/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

1

Contributors (12m)

0

Primary author dominance

0%

GitHub stars

3,731

single active maintainer 3m

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.61high

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/cargo/safetensors