No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pex has 5.9M monthly downloads and 4K GitHub stars. Version 2.97.1, first published in 2014.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2026.
It is used by 21 tracked packages, including dagster-cloud, tecton and pantsbuild-pants.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
75
Adoption
80
Community
60
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,861,837
•
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
5,861,837
Stars
4,217
Stars per 1k downloads
0.72
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
198,383
Month daily avg
195,395
Momentum
+1.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,!=3.2.*,!=3.3.*,!=3.4.*,<3.16,>=2.7
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
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
2 days ago
Total releases
480
Releases/year
38.8
•
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
114
Monthly downloads
5,861,837
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
71
Issue Burden
12.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
55.7
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
36.8%
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
86.4K
macOS
102
Windows
29
Python Versions
3.7
38.3%
29.5K
3.13
20.5%
15.8K
3.11
16.9%
13.0K
3.9
13.6%
10.4K
3.12
10.8%
8.3K
Top Countries
1.
US
69.9K
US
2.
IE
11.0K
IE
3.
BE
2.2K
BE
4.
NL
1.6K
NL
5.
SG
688
SG
6.
CA
629
CA
7.
DE
623
DE
8.
CN
543
CN
9.
HK
392
HK
10.
GB
340
GB
Dependencies
0
2 optional dependencies
- psutil[management]
- subprocess32[subprocess]
Used By
21
Package Information
License
Apache-2.0
First Release
February 20, 2014
Last Release
3 days ago
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
2.97.1
Total Releases
480
Contributors
114
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
The PEX developers
Python Versions
2
2.7
3
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
3.15
Wheels
py2
py3
py310
py311
py312
py35
py36
py37
py38
py39
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh