No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
cookiecutter has 9.7M monthly downloads and 25K GitHub stars. Version 2.7.1 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2013.
It is stably maintained, last released in Mar 2026.
It is built on top of arrow, binaryornot and click. It is used by 463 tracked packages, including aws-sam-cli, kedro and taskcluster-taskgraph.
GitHub topics include cookiecutter.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
91
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
125 days ago
Monthly downloads
9,674,740
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
9,674,740
Stars
24,984
Stars per 1k downloads
2.58
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
312,722
Month daily avg
322,491
Momentum
-3.0%
((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
125 days ago
Total releases
43
Releases/year
3.3
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
295
Monthly downloads
9,674,740
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
80
Issue Burden
9.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
1.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
13.1%
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
138.6K
Windows
4.0K
macOS
1.8K
Python Versions
3.12
32.4%
40.9K
3.11
27.2%
34.4K
3.10
24.1%
30.4K
3.13
9.7%
12.2K
3.8
6.7%
8.4K
Top Countries
1.
US
110.5K
US
2.
IE
5.6K
IE
3.
DE
4.7K
DE
4.
SG
4.1K
SG
5.
JP
4.1K
JP
6.
NL
3.8K
NL
7.
BR
1.9K
BR
8.
GB
1.8K
GB
9.
CA
1.5K
CA
10.
CN
1.1K
CN
Dependencies
8
- arrow
- binaryornot >=0.4.4
- click <9.0.0,>=7.0
- jinja2 <4.0.0,>=2.7
- python-slugify >=4.0.0
- pyyaml >=5.3.1
- requests >=2.23.0
- rich
Used By
463
- aws-sam-cli
- kedro
- taskcluster-taskgraph
- fal
- cruft
- dbx
- gdsfactoryplus
- comfy-cli
- spyder
- flet-cli
- google-agents-cli
- agent-starter-pack
- fprime-tools
- canvas
- pegasus-cli
- seed-farmer
- briefcase
- atopile
- paasta-tools
- crossbar
- pulse-engine
- qwak-sdk
- inventree-plugin-creator
- frogml-cli
- merlin-sdk
- lytekit
- taipy
- roboto
- nb-cli
- kframework
- cookiejar
- rebake
- veadk-python
- inmanta-core
- create-dara-app
- csrd-utils
- manageprojects
- falco-cli
- xblock-sdk
- hamlet
- openhound
- cellpy
- highlighter-sdk
- optimus
- python-webpack-boilerplate
- leetcode-py-sdk
- cookieplone
- nodestream
- sequana-pipetools
- fastapi-amis-admin-cli
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Unknown
First Release
July 14, 2013
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Latest Version
2.7.1
Total Releases
43
Contributors
295
Open PRs
71
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py2
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh