Celery
Distributed Task Queue (development branch) observed · 2026-10-10
Health v2 · maintenance only
89/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 69
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 29
- age_days: 6388
- days_rel: 208
- days_push: 11
- n_releases_24m: 8
Adoption not part of the score
28937 stars · 5208 forks observed · 2026-10-10
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-10-05, confidence 0.98
Celery is a Python library that provides a distributed task queue for asynchronous job processing. It supports multiple brokers, result backends, and offers tools for monitoring and scheduling tasks.
Use cases
- run background jobs from a web application
- schedule periodic tasks like cron jobs
- process large data pipelines asynchronously
- offload heavy computations to worker processes
- integrate task queues with Django or Flask apps
- scale out workers across multiple machines
When to choose
- you need a mature, battle‑tested async task system for Python
- your architecture requires reliable message brokering (RabbitMQ, Redis, SQS, etc.)
- you want built‑in support for task retries, result storage, and monitoring
- you plan to run many workers and need horizontal scaling
When to avoid
- you need ultra‑low latency real‑time processing where a message queue adds overhead
- your project is a simple script that doesn't justify a separate broker
- you are targeting Windows environments without using WSL or containers
- you prefer a pure Go/Node/Rust solution instead of Python
Facets
library · maturity active
message-queue backend web-development python celery distributed async broker redis rabbitmq django-integration task-scheduling worker-management data-engineering linux macos docker
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/celery/celery · fetched 2026-10-10 · e2a6a78e1fe1
- homepage: https://docs.celeryq.dev · fetched 2026-09-21 · 367442071f05
- site_page: https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/getting-started/resources.html · fetched 2026-09-21 · 10a2e1478416
- site_page: https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/getting-started/first-steps-with-celery.html · fetched 2026-09-21 · 790867eb0adc
- site_page: https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/faq.html · fetched 2026-09-21 · 0dbb808cdd44
- site_page: https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/getting-started/index.html · fetched 2026-09-21 · 179a01b08223
- site_page: https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/getting-started/introduction.html · fetched 2026-09-21 · c679002c3704
- site_page: https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/getting-started/backends-and-brokers/index.html · fetched 2026-09-21 · 900596d4f730
- site_page: https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/getting-started/next-steps.html · fetched 2026-09-21 · 6b35c94b13ca
- site_page: https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/changelog.html · fetched 2026-09-21 · 609df9d5f45f
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| celery/celery | main | 89 |
| celery/kombu | sdk | 84 |
| celery/django-celery-beat | plugin | 78 |
| celery/django-celery | plugin | 40 |
| celery/billiard | sdk | 94 |
| celery/py-amqp | sdk | 98 |
| celery/vine | sdk | 67 |
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