Monthly downloads
163.4K
Weekly downloads
40.9K
GitHub stars
3.5K
Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.
Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
>=3.11
Licence
Apache-2.0
Last Release
3 months ago
First Release
November 12, 2018
Total Releases
14
Python Versions
3
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 105 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
79
Adoption
72
Community
90
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
6 days ago
Monthly downloads
163,438
•
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
163,438
Stars
3,490
Stars per 1k downloads
21.35
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
5,849
Month daily avg
5,448
Momentum
+7.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.11
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
•
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
Legacy
Supports 3.10 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
112 days ago
Total releases
14
Releases/year
1.8
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
235
Monthly downloads
163,438
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
86
Issue Burden
79.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
26.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
105d
PR Velocity
Active
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
3.6K
Windows
124
macOS
113
Python Versions
3.12
37.1%
1.4K
3.11
22.8%
835
3.13
16.8%
616
3.10
12.8%
469
3.14
10.6%
388
Top Countries
1.
US
3.8K
US
2.
SG
307
SG
3.
JP
120
JP
4.
IR
104
IR
5.
IN
92
IN
6.
NL
55
NL
7.
RU
49
RU
8.
TW
45
TW
9.
HK
42
HK
10.
FR
40
FR
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Dependencies
15
- appdirs
- autograd <1.9
- autoray ==0.8.4
- cachetools
- diastatic-malt
- gast
- networkx
- numpy >=2.0
- packaging
- pennylane-lightning >=0.45
- requests
- rustworkx >=0.14.0
- scipy
- tomlkit
- typing-extensions
Used By
134
- pennylane-lightning 287.6K/mo
- amazon-braket-pennylane-plugin 15.4K/mo
- pennylane-qrack 11.8K/mo
- pennylane-qiskit 11.7K/mo
- pennylane-catalyst 9.7K/mo
- pennylane-lightning-kokkos 8.9K/mo
- qualtran 4.6K/mo
- pennylane-lightning-gpu 3.8K/mo
- qsvt-pennylane 3.5K/mo
- amazon-braket-algorithm-library 2.9K/mo
Repository details
Data and sources
Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh