PyRank
pre-commit

pre-commit

A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pre-commit has 173.2M monthly downloads and 15K GitHub stars. Version 4.6.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2014.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2026.

It is built on top of cfgv, identify and nodeenv. It is used by 969 tracked packages, including swebench, diagrams and pre-commit-uv.

GitHub topics include git, pre-commit and linter.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (pre-commit/pre-commit) with 3 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
4.9M
Week
36.5M
Month
173.2M
Stars
15.4K
Forks
982
Issues
22
Version
4.6.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
88
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
48 days ago
Monthly downloads
173,152,373
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
173,152,373
Stars
15,394
Stars per 1k downloads
0.09
• 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
5,213,884
Month daily avg
5,771,746
Momentum
-9.7%
((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
75 days ago
Total releases
202
Releases/year
16.7
• 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
136
Monthly downloads
173,152,373
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
61
 
Issue Burden
1.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
13.8%
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 3.3M
Windows 47.2K
macOS 33.0K

Python Versions

3.12
27.3% 890.2K
3.13
27.1% 882.5K
3.11
26.3% 859.0K
3.10
13.5% 439.6K
3.14
5.8% 190.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
2.6M
2. IE IE
296.3K
3. SG SG
120.2K
4. DE DE
97.5K
5. KR KR
40.5K
6. NL NL
37.9K
7. GB GB
37.1K
8. AU AU
22.5K
9. HK HK
22.5K
10. RU RU
16.2K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
June 17, 2014
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
4.6.0
Total Releases
202
Contributors
136
Open PRs
12
Archived
No
Author
Anthony Sottile
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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