No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
plaid-python has 2.3M monthly downloads and 515 GitHub stars. Version 40.1.0 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2014.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of nulltype, python-dateutil and urllib3. It is used by 12 tracked packages, including timber-common, biweeklybudget and mcp-server-plaid.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
60
Adoption
60
Community
95
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
11 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,280,884
•
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
2,280,884
Stars
515
Stars per 1k downloads
0.23
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
66,079
Month daily avg
76,029
Momentum
-13.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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
11 days ago
Total releases
145
Releases/year
12.4
•
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
228
Monthly downloads
2,280,884
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
75
Issue Burden
13.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
139.0%
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
29.9K
macOS
106
Windows
43
Python Versions
3.10
30.2%
8.7K
3.11
28.7%
8.3K
3.12
20.0%
5.8K
3.14
15.8%
4.6K
3.13
5.4%
1.6K
Top Countries
1.
US
27.7K
US
2.
IN
677
IN
3.
DE
510
DE
4.
CH
211
CH
5.
ID
185
ID
6.
SG
157
SG
7.
ES
91
ES
8.
GB
86
GB
9.
AU
85
AU
10.
FR
54
FR
Dependencies
3
- nulltype
- python-dateutil
- urllib3 >=1.25.3
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
November 10, 2014
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
40.1.0
Total Releases
145
Contributors
228
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Author
Plaid Inc.
Python Versions
3.7
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh