Is redis safe to use?

redis has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (8.1.0). DepScope rates its health at 93/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of redis?

The latest version of redis is 8.1.0, released 2026-07-30.

Does redis have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of redis.

No, redis is actively maintained. Latest release: 8.1.0 (2026-07-30).

What are alternatives to redis?

Popular alternatives to redis in PyPI include: certifi, grpcio-status, h11, litellm, boto3.

redis

pypiv8.1.0

Python client for Redis database and key-value store

License MITpermissive169 versions11 deps65,605,360 weekly dl

redis/redis-py

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 93/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

8/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

22

Contributors (12m)

35

Primary author dominance

38%

GitHub stars

13,520

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.78critical

Download trend

growing(+24.5%)

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (11)

async-timeout pybreaker hiredis pyjwt cryptography pyopenssl requests opentelemetry-api opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http opentelemetry-sdk xxhash~

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/pypi/redis

redis

pypiv8.1.0

Python client for Redis database and key-value store

License MITpermissive169 versions11 deps65,605,360 weekly dl

redis/redis-py

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 93/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

8/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

22

Contributors (12m)

35

Primary author dominance

38%

GitHub stars

13,520

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.78critical

Download trend

growing(+24.5%)

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (11)

async-timeout pybreaker hiredis pyjwt cryptography pyopenssl requests opentelemetry-api opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http opentelemetry-sdk xxhash~

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/pypi/redis