PyRank
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freezegun

Let your Python tests travel through time
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

freezegun has 49.1M monthly downloads and 5K GitHub stars. Version 1.5.5 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2012.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Aug 2025.

It is built on top of python-dateutil. It is used by 113 tracked packages, including pytest-homeassistant-custom-component, pytest-freezegun and pytest-freezer.

Downloads
Day
1.7M
Week
11.4M
Month
49.1M
Stars
4.5K
Forks
296
Issues
120
Version
1.5.5

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
75
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
321 days ago
Monthly downloads
49,058,912
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
49,058,912
Stars
4,519
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
1,628,819
Month daily avg
1,635,297
Momentum
-0.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
Apache-2.0
• 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
331 days ago
Total releases
68
Releases/year
5.0
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
114
Monthly downloads
49,058,912
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
61
 
Issue Burden
26.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
38.5%
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 991.8K
Windows 7.6K
macOS 7.0K

Python Versions

3.13
57.7% 546.4K
3.12
18.3% 173.1K
3.11
10.8% 102.2K
3.10
6.7% 63.1K
3.14
6.6% 62.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
639.7K
2. IE IE
274.5K
3. DE DE
18.7K
4. SG SG
15.4K
5. GB GB
12.4K
6. AU AU
5.2K
7. NL NL
5.0K
8. BR BR
4.5K
9. IN IN
3.5K
10. HK HK
3.3K

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0
First Release
December 11, 2012
Last Release
11 months ago
Last Commit
10 months ago
Latest Version
1.5.5
Total Releases
68
Contributors
114
Open PRs
35
Archived
No
Author
Steve Pulec
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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