The invention relates to a flame-retardant polyamide composition comprising as component A) 1 to 96 wt % of one or more thermoplastic polyamides, as component B) 2 to 25 wt % of a dialkylphosphinic salt of the formula (I), and/or of a diphosphinic salt of the formula (II), and/or of polymers thereof, in which R1 and R2 are identical or different and are C1-C6-alkyl, linear, or branched, or H; R3 is C1-C10-alkylene, linear, or branched, C6-C10-arylene, C7-C20-alkylarylene, or C7-C20-arylalkylene; M is Mg, Ca, Al, Sb, Sn, Ge, Ti, Zn, Fe, Zr, Ce, Bi, Sr, Mn, Li, Na, K and/or a protonated nitrogen base; m is 1 to 4; n is 1 to 4; x is 1 to 4, as component C) 1 to 20 wt % of a salt of phosphorous acid, as component D) 1 to 20 wt % of a phosphazene, as component E) 0 to 50 wt % of filler or reinforcing agent, as component F) 0 to 1 wt % of a phosphonite or of a mixture of a phosphonite and a phosphite, and as component G) 0 to 1 wt % of an ester or salt of long-chain aliphatic carboxylic acids (fatty acids), which typically have chain lengths of C14 to C40, the sum of the components always being 100 wt %.