No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
prek has 26.9M monthly downloads and 8K GitHub stars. Version 0.4.8 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2025.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2026.
It is used by 7 tracked packages, including nf-core, pyproject-pre-commit and royal-mail-combined.
GitHub topics include git, pre-commit and git-hooks.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
78
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
26,884,189
•
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
26,884,189
Stars
7,971
Stars per 1k downloads
0.30
•
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
867,333
Month daily avg
896,140
Momentum
-3.2%
((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
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
3 days ago
Total releases
76
Releases/year
83.3
•
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
109
Monthly downloads
26,884,189
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
57
Issue Burden
6.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
49.1%
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
749.6K
Windows
2.4K
macOS
2.2K
Python Versions
3.10
80.7%
608.1K
3.14
5.1%
38.3K
3.13
4.8%
36.1K
3.12
4.8%
36.1K
3.11
4.7%
35.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
747.3K
US
2.
DE
3.9K
DE
3.
SG
1.6K
SG
4.
CN
1.0K
CN
5.
IE
962
IE
6.
GB
668
GB
7.
NL
626
NL
8.
CA
381
CA
9.
JP
350
JP
10.
BE
298
BE
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
August 8, 2025
Last Release
3 days ago
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
0.4.8
Total Releases
76
Contributors
109
Open PRs
15
Archived
No
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh