No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
clerk-backend-api has 2.2M monthly downloads and 186 GitHub stars. Version 6.0.1 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2024.
It is actively maintained, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of cryptography, httpcore and httpx. It is used by 13 tracked packages, including pytest-clerk-mock, django-clerk-users and reflex-clerk-api.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
48
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
24 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,162,218
•
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
2,162,218
Stars
186
Stars per 1k downloads
0.09
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
•
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
68,006
Month daily avg
72,074
Momentum
-5.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
•
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
Not specified
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
•
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
Package does not declare a license.
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
24 days ago
Total releases
58
Releases/year
29.2
•
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
52
Monthly downloads
2,162,218
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
65
Issue Burden
32.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
118.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
39.5K
macOS
605
Windows
40
Python Versions
3.12
40.0%
15.6K
3.13
28.9%
11.2K
3.11
24.9%
9.7K
3.14
5.4%
2.1K
3.10
0.8%
302
Top Countries
1.
US
37.1K
US
2.
DE
1.5K
DE
3.
GB
1.5K
GB
4.
AU
407
AU
5.
NL
324
NL
6.
CN
126
CN
7.
IN
93
IN
8.
FI
90
FI
9.
SG
70
SG
10.
CA
68
CA
Dependencies
5
- cryptography <49.0.0,>=45.0.0
- httpcore >=1.0.9
- httpx >=0.28.1
- pydantic >=2.11.2
- pyjwt <3.0.0,>=2.9.0
Package Information
License
Unknown
First Release
July 11, 2024
Last Release
3 weeks ago
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Latest Version
6.0.1
Total Releases
58
Contributors
52
Open PRs
3
Archived
No
Author
Clerk
Python Versions
3
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh