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pymatgen

Python Materials Genomics (pymatgen) is a robust materials analysis code that defines classes for structures and molecules with support for many electronic structure codes. It powers the Materials Project.
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Verified repo
Monthly downloads
808.0K
Weekly downloads
165.7K
GitHub stars
2.0K

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
2026.9.24
Requires Python
>=3.11
Licence
MIT
Last Release
3 weeks ago
First Release
November 12, 2011
Total Releases
413
Python Versions
3 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details

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

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
76
Adoption
59
Community
95
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
12 days ago
Monthly downloads
808,001
• 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
808,001
Stars
1,990
Stars per 1k downloads
2.46
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
23,673
Month daily avg
26,933
Momentum
-12.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.11
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
Legacy
Supports 3.10 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
23 days ago
Total releases
413
Releases/year
27.6
• 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
283
Monthly downloads
808,001
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
96
 
Issue Burden
63.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
57.3
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
29.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 12.9K
Windows 496
macOS 252

Python Versions

3.12
42.2% 5.5K
3.11
22.2% 2.9K
3.10
20.3% 2.7K
3.13
9.3% 1.2K
3.14
5.9% 781

Top Countries

1. US US
11.9K
2. SG SG
833
3. BE BE
473
4. ES ES
471
5. CN CN
341
6. FR FR
220
7. DE DE
200
8. NO NO
188
9. JP JP
186
10. GB GB
159

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

1
25 optional dependencies
  • ase>=3.27.0[ase]
    extra == "ase"
  • beautifulsoup4[optional]
    extra == "optional"
  • chemview>=0.6[optional]
    extra == "optional"
  • f90nml>=1.1.2[optional]
    extra == "optional"
  • galore>=0.6.1[optional]
    extra == "optional"
  • h5py>=3.11.0[optional]
    extra == "optional"
  • hiphive>=1.3.1[optional]
    extra == "optional"
  • jarvis-tools>=2020.7.14[optional]
    extra == "optional"
  • matcalc>=0.5.0[matcalc]
    python_version < "3.13" and extra == "matcalc"
  • matgl>=4.0.1[matcalc]
    python_version < "3.13" and extra == "matcalc"
  • matgl>=4.0.1[mlp]
    python_version < "3.13" and extra == "mlp"
  • moyopy>=0.3[symmetry]
    extra == "symmetry"
  • netcdf4>=1.7.2[abinit]
    extra == "abinit"
  • numba>=0.55[numba]
    extra == "numba"
  • numpy<2,>=1.25.0[numpy-v1]
    python_version < "3.13" and extra == "numpy-v1"
  • phonopy>=4.0.0[optional]
    extra == "optional"
  • pymatgen[optional]
    extra == "optional"
  • pymatgen[prototypes]
    extra == "prototypes"
  • pymatgen-analysis-alloys[optional]
    extra == "optional"
  • pyxtal>=1.0[prototypes]
    extra == "prototypes"
  • pyzeo[zeopp]
    platform_system != "Windows" and extra == "zeopp"
  • seekpath>=2.0.1[optional]
    extra == "optional"
  • spglib>=2.5[symmetry]
    extra == "symmetry"
  • tblite>=0.3.0[tblite]
    (platform_system == "Linux" and python_version < "3.12") and extra == "tblite"
  • vtk>=9.6.0[vis]
    extra == "vis"

Used By

388
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Repository details

Forks
972
Issues
127
Last Commit
1 week ago
Contributors
283
Open PRs
6
Archived
No

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
abinit analysis crystal diagrams electronic gaussian materials nwchem phase project qchem science structure vasp
Sources and methodology