No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pennylane-lightning has 1.1M monthly downloads and 140 GitHub stars. Version 0.45.0 supports Python 3.11+, first published in 2025.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.
It is built on top of pennylane and scipy-openblas32. It is used by 21 tracked packages, including pennylane, pennylane-lightning-kokkos and pennylane-catalyst.
GitHub topics include hpc, parallel and quantum-computing.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
47
Adoption
60
Community
90
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
5 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,086,680
•
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
1,086,680
Stars
140
Stars per 1k downloads
0.13
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
24,094
Month daily avg
36,223
Momentum
-33.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.11
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
56 days ago
Total releases
5
Releases/year
5.1
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
89
Monthly downloads
1,086,680
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
79
Issue Burden
171.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
161.8%
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
16.5K
Windows
559
macOS
184
Python Versions
3.10
56.8%
9.6K
3.11
19.7%
3.3K
3.12
17.4%
2.9K
3.13
3.6%
619
3.14
2.6%
434
Top Countries
1.
US
9.2K
US
2.
IE
5.5K
IE
3.
SG
1.2K
SG
4.
GB
551
GB
5.
CN
350
CN
6.
NL
136
NL
7.
IN
125
IN
8.
KR
109
KR
9.
TW
93
TW
10.
JP
85
JP
Dependencies
2
- pennylane >=0.44
- scipy-openblas32 >=0.3.26
4 optional dependencies
- pennylane-lightning-amdgpu[amdgpu]
- pennylane-lightning-gpu[gpu]
- pennylane-lightning-kokkos[kokkos]
- pennylane-lightning-tensor[tensor]
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Apache-2.0
First Release
July 15, 2025
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
5 days ago
Latest Version
0.45.0
Total Releases
5
Contributors
89
Open PRs
10
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp37
cp38
cp39
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh