Crates / candle-core
Rust crate · real downloads · data Oct 27, 2026
candle-core downloads, and should you depend on it?
Minimalist ML framework. crates.io · docs.rs · repository
alternatives · is it still maintained?
Established and gaining.
candle-core: 674 crates depend on it; no release in the last 90 days, so its count is all steady use.
How this verdict is decided (4 rules)
- Usage: crates.io reverse dependencies (crates that list it as a dependency): 10,000+ = foundational, 1,000+ = widely used, 100+ = established, under 100 = few direct dependents.
- Direction: the median quiet day in the last 30 days of the window against the first 30, read against the median tracked crate (the whole field moved +39% from late summer to October, so a raw trend says nothing). 10%+ ahead of the field = gaining; 10%+ behind = losing ground; otherwise steady. Steady with no release in 2+ years = quiet for years.
- Release spikes: the median release-window day against the quiet-day baseline: under 1.15x = no spike, 1.15x to 1.3x = small bumps, 1.3x or more = jumps on release days.
- Release recency: days since the newest version that was not yanked, from crates.io publish times.
release window (release day + next day)quiet dayquiet-day median · download the 89 days as CSV
The numbers in one paragraphcandle-core got 4,133,154 crates.io downloads from Jul 30, 2026 to Oct 26, 2026 with no new version in that window, so every day is a quiet day: a median of 39,321 a day, about 275,247 a week. With no release spikes to remove, its whole count is the steady baseline.
What this means if you're choosing a dependency
- Used, not everywhere. 674 crates depend on it. Look at how fast its issues get answered before you lean on it.
- Released this year. The latest version, 0.11.0, is from Jun 26, 2026 (4 months ago).
- Still pre-1.0 (0.11.0). Under Cargo's semver rules a 0.x minor bump may break you, so pin the minor version (
candle-core = "0.11") and read the changelog on upgrades. - Fit check: license MIT OR Apache-2.0, edition 2021 (from the latest version's manifest).
- Its raw count is a fair read. Under 1% of its downloads in the window came from release windows, so the raw number and the baseline (39,321 a day) tell the same story.
Alternatives that do a similar job
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Its place in the dependency graph
Built on candle-core
3 of the 1243 crates we track depend on it directly (biggest first).
candle-core builds on
Tracked crates its latest version (0.11.0) depends on (optional ones marked).
What the chart says
- Weekend quiet days ran at 72% of weekday quiet days (28,498 vs 39,823). A moderate dip: a mix of work-week builds and always-on automation.
- Biggest day: 90,671 on Oct 6, 2026, a quiet day with no release nearby.
Every number
| All-time downloads | 10,677,206 (outside the crates.io top 1,000 by all-time downloads) |
| Downloads in the window | 4,133,154 (Jul 30, 2026 to Oct 26, 2026, 89 days) |
| Within 2 days of a release | 0 (0.0%) |
| Quiet-day median (baseline) | 39,321 a day; weekdays 39,823, weekends 28,498 |
| Release-adjusted downloads | 4,133,154 (release-window days capped at the baseline) |
| Baseline rank | #1068 of the 1243 crates we track |
| Quiet-day trend | +123% raw, +61% against the median tracked crate (+39%) |
| Releases in the window | 0 |
| Versions published, ever | 37 |
| Latest version | 0.11.0, published Jun 26, 2026 (license MIT OR Apache-2.0, edition 2021) |
| First published | Aug 2, 2023 |
| Reverse dependencies | 674 |
How we compute this
crates.io counts every download, including CI runners, mirrors and bots that fetch each new version, so raw counts run high (why, in The Manual). We split the last 89 days into release windows (the day a version of candle-core was published, plus the next day) and quiet days, and use the median quiet day as the baseline: an upper bound on steady use, never a head count. The method and data come from our study of 90 days of crates.io data from 69 crates, featured in This Week in Rust #674; check any crate live with the real-downloads checker.
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Sources
- Daily downloads: crates.io API, /crates/candle-core/downloads (last 90 days, all versions), fetched Oct 27, 2026.
- Versions and publish times: crates.io API, /crates/candle-core/versions, same fetch.
- Reverse dependencies: crates.io reverse dependencies, same fetch. Dependency edges between tracked crates: each crate's default version, crates.io API.
- Fetched politely (one request every 2 seconds, identified User-Agent) per the crates.io data access policy. Data is crates.io's; the release-window split, baseline and verdict rules are ours, CC BY 4.0.
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