No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
kmodes has 618K monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 0.12.2, first published in 2016.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Sep 2022.
It is used by 10 tracked packages, including hossam, verifai and massa-algorithm.
GitHub topics include clustering-algorithm, k-modes and k-prototypes.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
69
Adoption
57
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
901 days ago
Monthly downloads
617,546
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
617,546
Stars
1,283
Stars per 1k downloads
2.08
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
16,964
Month daily avg
20,585
Momentum
-17.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
MIT
•
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
1399 days ago
Total releases
16
Releases/year
1.5
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
14
Monthly downloads
617,546
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
51
Issue Burden
12.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
3.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
498d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
9.5K
Windows
84
macOS
6
Python Versions
3.12
59.4%
5.4K
3.11
26.9%
2.5K
3.9
6.4%
583
3.10
4.3%
393
3.8
3.0%
272
Top Countries
1.
US
9.0K
US
2.
IN
93
IN
3.
HK
85
HK
4.
NL
76
NL
5.
IE
68
IE
6.
SG
50
SG
7.
GB
37
GB
8.
KR
29
KR
9.
DE
25
DE
10.
BR
23
BR
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
February 28, 2016
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
2 years ago
Latest Version
0.12.2
Total Releases
16
Contributors
14
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Nelis J de Vos
Python Versions
3
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh