PyRank
pallets

flask

The Python micro framework for building web applications.
PyPI GitHub Verified repo
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

flask has 203.6M monthly downloads and 72K GitHub stars. Version 3.1.3 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2010.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2026.

It is built on top of blinker, click and importlib-metadata. It is used by 7,233 tracked packages, including flask-cors, mlflow and flask-sqlalchemy.

GitHub topics include flask, wsgi and web-framework.

Downloads
Day
6.4M
Week
46.4M
Month
203.6M
Stars
71.9K
Forks
16.9K
Issues
2
Version
3.1.3

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
97
Adoption
70
Community
85
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
36 days ago
Monthly downloads
203,628,619
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
203,628,619
Stars
71,890
Stars per 1k downloads
0.35
• 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
6,621,644
Month daily avg
6,787,621
Momentum
-2.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
BSD-3-Clause
• 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
137 days ago
Total releases
64
Releases/year
3.9
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
729
Monthly downloads
203,628,619
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
94
 
Issue Burden
0.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
3.4
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
4.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
101d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 4.2M
Windows 118.4K
macOS 36.7K

Python Versions

3.12
36.6% 1.4M
3.11
27.1% 1.1M
3.10
17.8% 692.5K
3.13
12.1% 471.0K
3.14
6.3% 246.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
3.1M
2. DE DE
183.2K
3. SG SG
153.8K
4. IE IE
141.6K
5. IN IN
104.7K
6. NL NL
104.2K
7. JP JP
76.3K
8. GB GB
54.0K
9. HK HK
43.3K
10. BR BR
38.2K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
April 16, 2010
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
3.1.3
Total Releases
64
Contributors
729
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

Links