---
id: celery
version: "5.6.3"
license: BSD-3-Clause
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# celery — Distributed Task Queue.

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install celery
uv add celery
poetry add celery

## Description

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:Version: 5.6.3 (recovery)
:Web: https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/index.html
:Download: https://pypi.org/project/celery/
:Source: https://github.com/celery/celery/
:DeepWiki: |deepwiki|
:Keywords: task, queue, job, async, rabbitmq, amqp, redis,
  python, distributed, actors

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## AI interpretation — verify before relying

Celery is a distributed task queue that enables asynchronous job execution across multiple workers and machines using message brokers like RabbitMQ or Redis.

Verdict: Celery is a mature, actively maintained distributed task queue in the top 1000 PyPI packages with no known vulnerabilities. Its permissive BSD-3-Clause license and low install friction make it a reliable choice for async job processing, though you must provision and manage a message broker separately.

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