Celery
Distributed Task Queue (development branch) observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
91/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 76
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 29
- age_days: 6340
- days_rel: 160
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 8
Adoption not part of the score
28826 stars · 5142 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Celery is a Python distributed task queue for processing large volumes of messages asynchronously, with support for real-time task execution and scheduled (periodic) tasks. It uses pluggable brokers like RabbitMQ, Redis, and Amazon SQS, and includes worker processes, result backends, and workflow orchestration primitives.
Use cases
- run background jobs from a web request
- schedule periodic tasks in Python
- distribute work across multiple worker machines
- retry failed tasks asynchronously
- process emails or reports after a web request finishes
- queue heavy image or video processing jobs
- build distributed parallel execution pipelines
When to choose
- you need a battle-tested, production-grade task queue in Python
- you want broker flexibility (RabbitMQ, Redis, SQS, Kafka)
- you need periodic/scheduled tasks, e.g. with django-celery-beat
- you need horizontal scaling, routing, retries, and workflow canvases
When to avoid
- your app runs on Windows (not officially supported)
- you need a lightweight in-process background job runner for a small app
- you want a language other than Python as the primary ecosystem (clients exist for Go/Node/Rust but are community-maintained)
- you need a broker with monitoring on experimental transports like Kafka
Facets
library · maturity stable
message-queue scheduling workflow-automation concurrency monitoring microservices backend web-development python self-hosted task-queue background-jobs celery rabbitmq redis amqp distributed-workers periodic-tasks django automation messaging linux macos docker
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/celery/celery · fetched 2026-08-28 · fb14e745ee6d
- homepage: https://docs.celeryq.dev · fetched 2026-08-29 · 367442071f05
- site_page: https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/getting-started/resources.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 10a2e1478416
- site_page: https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/getting-started/first-steps-with-celery.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 790867eb0adc
- site_page: https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/faq.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 0dbb808cdd44
- site_page: https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/getting-started/index.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 179a01b08223
- site_page: https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/getting-started/introduction.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · c679002c3704
- site_page: https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/getting-started/backends-and-brokers/index.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 900596d4f730
- site_page: https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/getting-started/next-steps.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6b35c94b13ca
- site_page: https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/changelog.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 609df9d5f45f
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| celery/celery | main | 91 |
| celery/django-celery-beat | plugin | 81 |
| celery/django-celery | plugin | 44 |
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