osqp
OSQP: The Operator Splitting QP Solver
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Yes. OSQP is a mature, actively maintained solver with no known vulnerabilities, permissive licensing, and broad platform support. Medium install friction is typical for compiled optimization libraries. Install it if you need to solve convex quadratic programs; it is a standard choice in control, finance, and machine learning workflows.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Medium install friction due to compiled wheels for multiple Python versions and platforms (3.10–3.13, macOS, Linux, Windows).
- Active maintenance with a recent release 63 days ago.
- Runtime dependencies on numpy, scipy, jinja2, setuptools, and joblib are standard scientific stack components.
License · maintenance · safety
Apache-2.0 (permissive) — Apache-2.0 is a permissive license; you can use, modify, and distribute this package freely in commercial and private projects, provided you include a copy of the license and state significant changes.
last release 2026-06-12 (63 days)
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 5,475,125 downloads/mo, #2,091 on PyPI
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pip install osqp
import osqp
import numpy as np
# Define a QP problem and solve it
m = osqp.OSQP()
m.setup(P=P, q=q, A=A, l=l, u=u)
results = m.solve()- Whether the package actively maintains the underlying OSQP C library or relies on external updates
- Performance characteristics and scalability limits for large-scale problems
- Availability of GPU acceleration or parallel solving capabilities
- Specific numerical stability guarantees and convergence properties
What it is and what it does
OSQP is a numerical solver for convex quadratic programs—optimization problems that minimize a quadratic objective subject to linear inequality constraints. It wraps a C implementation of the Operator Splitting algorithm, making it accessible from Python. The solver targets problems of the form: minimize (1/2)x^T P x + q^T x subject to l ≤ Ax ≤ u, where P is positive semidefinite.
The package is used in control systems, machine learning, finance, and robotics where you need to solve QP subproblems efficiently. It depends on numpy and scipy for matrix operations, jinja2 for templating, setuptools for installation, and joblib for parallelization. Installation is straightforward via pip, with precompiled wheels available for modern Python versions (3.8+) on macOS, Linux, and Windows.
Use it for
- Solve model predictive control problems in robotics and autonomous systems
- Optimize portfolio allocation and risk management in quantitative finance
- Train support vector machines and other convex machine learning models
- Solve convex relaxations of combinatorial optimization problems
- Implement proximal algorithms and splitting methods in numerical optimization research
Worth the install?
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Yes.
OSQP is a mature, actively maintained solver with no known vulnerabilities, permissive licensing, and broad platform support. Medium install friction is typical for compiled optimization libraries. Install it if you need to solve convex quadratic programs; it is a standard choice in control, finance, and machine learning workflows.
Install
osqp on PyPI
Before you install
Medium install friction due to compiled wheels for multiple Python versions and platforms (3.10–3.13, macOS, Linux, Windows). Active maintenance with a recent release 63 days ago. Runtime dependencies on numpy, scipy, jinja2, setuptools, and joblib are standard scientific stack components.
License in practice
Apache-2.0 is a permissive license; you can use, modify, and distribute this package freely in commercial and private projects, provided you include a copy of the license and state significant changes.
Quickstart
pip install osqp
import osqp
import numpy as np
# Define a QP problem and solve it
m = osqp.OSQP()
m.setup(P=P, q=q, A=A, l=l, u=u)
results = m.solve()Verify before relying
- Whether the package actively maintains the underlying OSQP C library or relies on external updates
- Performance characteristics and scalability limits for large-scale problems
- Availability of GPU acceleration or parallel solving capabilities
- Specific numerical stability guarantees and convergence properties
Package facts
| License | Apache-2.0 permissive |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release >=3.8 |
| Install friction | Medium. Platform-specific wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 5 packagesjinja2numpyscipysetuptoolsjoblib |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 63 days since the last release |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 5,475,125 / month, #2,091 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
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