No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pot has 517K monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 0.9.7 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2016.

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

It is built on top of numpy and scipy. It is used by 161 tracked packages, including graspologic, pyemd and valentine.

GitHub topics include optimal-transport, numerical-optimization and machine-learning.

Downloads
Day
13.2K
Week
119.5K
Month
516.6K
Stars
2.8K
Forks
547
Issues
42
Version
0.9.7

Package Insights

Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
75
Adoption
67
Community
65
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
5 days ago
Monthly downloads
516,583
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
516,583
Stars
2,820
Stars per 1k downloads
5.46
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
17,066
Month daily avg
17,219
Momentum
-0.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
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
0 days ago
Total releases
32
Releases/year
3.3
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
93
Monthly downloads
516,583
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
87
 
Issue Burden
14.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
17.4
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
17.0%
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 6.8K
Windows 255
macOS 234

Python Versions

3.12
48.8% 3.4K
3.11
30.7% 2.2K
3.10
11.5% 809
3.13
7.0% 494
3.9
2.0% 141

Top Countries

1. US US
5.9K
2. SG SG
464
3. CN CN
321
4. BE BE
223
5. DE DE
185
6. KR KR
104
7. JP JP
103
8. NL NL
103
9. IE IE
80
10. HK HK
79

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
October 28, 2016
Last Release
3 hr ago
Last Commit
5 days ago
Latest Version
0.9.7
Total Releases
32
Contributors
93
Open PRs
6
Archived
No
Author
Remi Flamary, Nicolas Courty, Cédric Vincent-Cuaz, POT Contributors
Python Versions
3 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh