PyRank
moderngl

moderngl

Modern OpenGL binding for Python
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

moderngl has 600K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 5.12.0 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2016.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Oct 2024.

It is built on top of glcontext. It is used by 100 tracked packages, including moderngl-window, manim and aitviewer.

GitHub topics include opengl, modern-opengl-functions and moderngl.

Downloads
Day
16.0K
Week
120.0K
Month
600.3K
Stars
2.3K
Forks
230
Issues
49
Version
5.12.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
70
Adoption
57
Community
65
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
246 days ago
Monthly downloads
600,281
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
600,281
Stars
2,300
Stars per 1k downloads
3.83
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
17,144
Month daily avg
20,009
Momentum
-14.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
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
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
627 days ago
Total releases
89
Releases/year
8.8
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
54
Monthly downloads
600,281
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
58
 
Issue Burden
21.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
23.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
381d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 8.8K
Windows 2.5K
macOS 910

Python Versions

3.12
47.0% 5.6K
3.11
21.9% 2.6K
3.10
15.5% 1.9K
3.13
11.0% 1.3K
3.14
4.7% 559

Top Countries

1. US US
7.6K
2. IN IN
481
3. SG SG
392
4. CN CN
347
5. JP JP
311
6. DE DE
300
7. GB GB
214
8. NL NL
178
9. FR FR
173
10. BR BR
167
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
May 27, 2016
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
8 months ago
Latest Version
5.12.0
Total Releases
89
Contributors
54
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Author
Szabolcs Dombi
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp33 cp34 cp35 cp36 cp38 cp39 pp38
Keywords
ModernGL OpenGL PyOpenGL rendering graphics shader GLSL GPU visualization 2D 3D
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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