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pipx

Install and Run Python Applications in Isolated Environments
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pipx has 7M monthly downloads and 13K GitHub stars. Version 1.15.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2017.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is built on top of argcomplete, colorama and packaging. It is used by 28 tracked packages, including xleda, jupyter-releaser and cartridge-sdk.

GitHub topics include cli and venv.

Downloads
Day
178.9K
Week
1.5M
Month
7.0M
Stars
12.9K
Forks
574
Issues
91
Version
1.15.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
85
Adoption
60
Community
50
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
6,991,766
• 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
6,991,766
Stars
12,868
Stars per 1k downloads
1.84
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
209,720
Month daily avg
233,059
Momentum
-10.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
12 days ago
Total releases
77
Releases/year
8.6
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
247
Monthly downloads
6,991,766
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
55
 
Issue Burden
7.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
3.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
43.0%
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 81.2K
Windows 3.8K
macOS 1.5K

Python Versions

3.12
49.2% 35.8K
3.11
22.5% 16.3K
3.10
12.3% 8.9K
3.13
9.6% 7.0K
3.14
6.3% 4.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
67.1K
2. SG SG
7.0K
3. DE DE
3.5K
4. NL NL
1.1K
5. IE IE
768
6. RU RU
734
7. IN IN
690
8. GB GB
649
9. FR FR
617
10. CN CN
527
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
July 27, 2017
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
1.15.0
Total Releases
77
Contributors
247
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
Virtual Environment cli install pip workflow
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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