PyRank
vitalik

django-ninja

💨 Fast, Async-ready, Openapi, type hints based framework for building APIs
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django-ninja has 3M monthly downloads and 9K GitHub stars. Version 1.6.2 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2019.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.

It is built on top of django and pydantic. It is used by 104 tracked packages, including django-ninja-extra, aa-killstats and aa-contacts.

GitHub topics include django, rest-api and openapi.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (vitalik/django-ninja) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
88.0K
Week
601.3K
Month
3.0M
Stars
9.1K
Forks
598
Issues
135
Version
1.6.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
83
Adoption
60
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
27 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,966,620
• 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
2,966,620
Stars
9,114
Stars per 1k downloads
3.07
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
85,895
Month daily avg
98,887
Momentum
-13.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
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
MIT License
• 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
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
110 days ago
Total releases
79
Releases/year
12.0
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
161
Monthly downloads
2,966,620
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
81
 
Issue Burden
14.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
18.3
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
26.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
82d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 43.1K
macOS 203
Windows 155

Python Versions

3.12
33.3% 14.1K
3.11
28.9% 12.2K
3.14
17.9% 7.6K
3.13
16.5% 7.0K
3.10
3.4% 1.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
29.2K
2. FI FI
7.7K
3. DE DE
1.3K
4. IN IN
1.2K
5. NL NL
1.2K
6. SG SG
374
7. CZ CZ
247
8. FR FR
213
9. JP JP
189
10. IE IE
160
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
December 4, 2019
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
4 weeks ago
Latest Version
1.6.2
Total Releases
79
Contributors
161
Open PRs
80
Archived
No
Author
Vitaliy Kucheryaviy
Python Versions
3 3.7 3.8 3.9 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

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