No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
levenshtein has 21.9M monthly downloads and 393 GitHub stars. Version 0.27.3 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2021.
It is stably maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Nov 2025.
It is built on top of rapidfuzz. It is used by 282 tracked packages, including python-levenshtein, texterrors and pypsa.
GitHub topics include levenshtein, levenshtein-distance and string-matching.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
50
Adoption
70
Community
30
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
163 days ago
Monthly downloads
21,940,120
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
21,940,120
Stars
393
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
699,321
Month daily avg
731,337
Momentum
-4.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
247 days ago
Total releases
33
Releases/year
6.0
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
11
Monthly downloads
21,940,120
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
2.5
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
399.6K
Windows
4.9K
macOS
1.9K
Python Versions
3.12
29.4%
106.6K
3.11
21.7%
79.0K
3.9
21.1%
76.7K
3.10
17.4%
63.0K
3.7
10.4%
37.8K
Top Countries
1.
US
331.7K
US
2.
IE
14.4K
IE
3.
NL
13.8K
NL
4.
IN
9.7K
IN
5.
DE
6.8K
DE
6.
SG
5.6K
SG
7.
BR
4.1K
BR
8.
GB
3.0K
GB
9.
BE
2.4K
BE
10.
AU
2.3K
AU
Dependencies
1
- rapidfuzz <4.0.0,>=3.9.0
Used By
282
- python-levenshtein
- texterrors
- pypsa
- python-csv
- babeldoc
- changedetection-io
- upgini
- udata
- lit-nlp
- rich-codex
- linkapy
- fuzzy-search
- scandeval
- sonar-tools
- lhcbdirac
- intuned-browser
- centralcli
- invenio-feeds
- ms-vlmeval
- euroeval
- anipy-api
- perla-extract
- rank-torrent-name
- package-alert
- almasru
- gdal2numpy
- scholarx
- detectmateperformance
- ai-evaluation
- scaledp
- parea-ai
- edms
- bagbag
- space-rocks
- cuery
- openpectus
- guiguts
- ontolearner
- mosstool
- nr-oaipmh-harvesters
- ingester3
- tapeagents
- pypaq
- postbound
- pixelgen-pixelator
- futureagi
- dedoc
- quran-transcript
- dedupmarcxml
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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
8 months ago
Last Commit
5 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
pp310
pp311
pp36
pp37
pp38
pp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh