No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
polyfactory has 10.1M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 3.3.0 supports Python <4.0,>=3.9, first published in 2023.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2026.
It is built on top of faker and typing-extensions. It is used by 43 tracked packages, including litestar, mozilla-nimbus-schemas and pipelex.
GitHub topics include pydantic, dataclasses and starlite.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 107 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
65
Adoption
70
Community
60
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
27 days ago
Monthly downloads
10,128,881
•
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
10,128,881
Stars
1,487
Stars per 1k downloads
0.15
•
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
326,904
Month daily avg
337,629
Momentum
-3.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4.0,>=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
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
135 days ago
Total releases
52
Releases/year
15.9
•
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
75
Monthly downloads
10,128,881
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
77
Issue Burden
33.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
33.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
65.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
107d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
157.0K
Windows
6.1K
macOS
4.8K
Python Versions
3.12
35.0%
55.4K
3.11
27.6%
43.8K
3.13
18.9%
29.9K
3.10
9.6%
15.2K
3.14
8.9%
14.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
107.9K
US
2.
DE
11.1K
DE
3.
GB
6.4K
GB
4.
NL
6.3K
NL
5.
AU
6.2K
AU
6.
IE
5.4K
IE
7.
BR
4.3K
BR
8.
FR
3.8K
FR
9.
IN
2.4K
IN
10.
JP
2.0K
JP
Dependencies
2
- faker >=5.0.0
- typing-extensions >=4.6.0
Used By
43
- litestar
- mozilla-nimbus-schemas
- pipelex
- attack-on-domain
- bert-schemas
- valentina-python-client
- pydantic2
- appworld
- cimsparql
- markata
- pyloobins
- grai-schemas
- thetagang
- capper
- flync
- pydantic-model-example
- goxlrutilityapi
- semblance
- pydantic3
- prompt-admin
- whitesmith
- mongorepository
- elmes
- apaleo-api-client
- prosemark
- config-server
- linemark
- jamfmcp
- polyspark
- pymocker
- fastapi-mock-middleware
- grai-source-cube
- appworld-haha
- polypolars
- metamart-schemas
- langfactory
- mseep-docling
- smart-pdf-for-business
- polypandas
- barkus-func-test
- metamart-source-cube
- unifactory
- specgen-fastapi
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
April 1, 2023
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
4 weeks ago
Latest Version
3.3.0
Total Releases
52
Contributors
75
Open PRs
23
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh