No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
polyleven has 5.2M monthly downloads and 87 GitHub stars. Version 0.11.0 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2018.
It is stably maintained, last released in Feb 2026.
It is used by 16 tracked packages, including autoevals, geneticengine and astrodetection.
GitHub topics include levenshtein-distance.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- Moderate bus factor: only 7 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
45
Popularity
38
Adoption
60
Community
20
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
148 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,178,379
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
5,178,379
Stars
87
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
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
145,593
Month daily avg
172,613
Momentum
-15.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a license.
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
148 days ago
Total releases
9
Releases/year
1.1
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
7
Monthly downloads
5,178,379
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
30
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
53.8%
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
59.5K
macOS
47
Windows
24
Python Versions
3.13
65.3%
38.7K
3.10
14.3%
8.5K
3.12
13.7%
8.1K
3.11
5.0%
3.0K
3.14
1.7%
1.0K
Top Countries
1.
US
57.7K
US
2.
NL
998
NL
3.
SG
467
SG
4.
DE
171
DE
5.
CN
136
CN
6.
CA
109
CA
7.
IE
77
IE
8.
HK
40
HK
9.
IN
40
IN
10.
CH
33
CH
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Unknown
First Release
July 22, 2018
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Latest Version
0.11.0
Total Releases
9
Contributors
7
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh