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levenshtein

The Levenshtein Python C extension module contains functions for fast computation of Levenshtein distance and string similarity
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
854.7K
Week
5.1M
Month
21.1M
Stars
391
Forks
26
Issues
1
Version
0.27.3

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
50
Adoption
80
Community
30
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
118 days ago
Monthly downloads
21,079,104
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
21,079,104
Stars
391
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
• 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
728,726
Month daily avg
702,637
Momentum
+3.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
GPL-2.0-or-later
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
202 days ago
Total releases
33
Releases/year
6.1
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
11
Monthly downloads
21,079,104
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
31
 
Issue Burden
2.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
42.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
84d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 407.6K
Windows 5.6K
macOS 3.2K

Python Versions

3.12
34.0% 126.7K
3.9
25.7% 95.8K
3.11
19.9% 74.3K
3.10
14.1% 52.5K
3.7
6.3% 23.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
302.9K
2. BE BE
37.8K
3. IE IE
16.9K
4. NL NL
12.4K
5. IN IN
9.5K
6. DE DE
6.1K
7. SG SG
4.4K
8. BR BR
4.2K
9. FR FR
2.9K
10. GB GB
2.8K

GitHub Topics

Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
GPL-2.0-or-later
First Release
January 9, 2021
Last Release
6 months ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
0.27.3
Total Releases
33
Contributors
11
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
David Necas, Mikko Ohtamaa, Antti Haapala
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp35 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39 pp311 pp36 pp37 pp38 pp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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