No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pip-tools has 18.5M monthly downloads and 8K GitHub stars. Version 7.5.3 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2012.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2026.
It is built on top of build, click and pip. It is used by 93 tracked packages, including pip-compile-multi, hatch-pip-compile and dallinger.
GitHub topics include packaging, pip-tools and pip-compile.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 128 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
82
Adoption
60
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
17 days ago
Monthly downloads
18,461,363
•
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
18,461,363
Stars
8,007
Stars per 1k downloads
0.43
•
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
545,699
Month daily avg
615,379
Momentum
-11.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
BSD
•
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
145 days ago
Total releases
123
Releases/year
8.9
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
856
Monthly downloads
18,461,363
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
72
Issue Burden
18.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
129.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
128d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
114.0K
Windows
14.2K
macOS
1.4K
Python Versions
3.11
28.9%
32.9K
3.12
27.1%
30.8K
3.10
18.3%
20.8K
3.13
15.0%
17.0K
3.9
10.8%
12.3K
Top Countries
1.
US
156.4K
US
2.
IE
6.3K
IE
3.
SG
3.9K
SG
4.
JP
3.9K
JP
5.
DE
3.1K
DE
6.
GB
2.7K
GB
7.
NL
2.1K
NL
8.
IN
785
IN
9.
AU
711
AU
10.
ES
680
ES
Dependencies
7
- build >=1.0.0
- click >=8
- pip >=22.2
- pyproject-hooks
- setuptools
- tomli
- wheel
8 optional dependencies
- covdefaults[coverage]
- flit-core[testing]
- poetry-core[testing]
- pytest[testing]
- pytest-cov[coverage]
- pytest-rerunfailures[testing]
- pytest-xdist[testing]
- tomli-w[testing]
Used By
93
- pip-compile-multi
- hatch-pip-compile
- dallinger
- super-gradients
- bigflow
- pybuild-deps
- pip-sync-faster
- aac
- pip-and-pip-tools
- vetiver
- pigweed
- smartrun
- pip-compile-universal
- admyral
- difai
- big-graph-dataset
- xtcryptosignals
- safe-pip-compile
- skip-developers-chamber
- torchcell
- hitchpylibrarytoolkit
- tabsdata
- substrafl
- illuminat
- tterp-cores
- chassisml
- chacc-dependency-manager
- crop-yolo
- tutor-contrib-owly
- wreck
- dogfood-logger
- cloudmesh-ai-cmc
- fog-buildtools
- neuronsphere
- flitenv
- yapping
- a-piece-of-shit
- html-flask-install
- vistock
- nexor
- pypoet
- mozilla-bigquery-etl
- loris-log
- tts-joinery
- api-tackle
- hmd-cli-python
- conqace
- js-flask-install
- kentoml
- oceancrow-pdg
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD
First Release
September 26, 2012
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
7.5.3
Total Releases
123
Contributors
856
Open PRs
26
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp27
py2
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh