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pytest-benchmark

pytest fixture for benchmarking code
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pytest-benchmark has 15.6M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 5.2.3 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2014.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2025.

It is built on top of py-cpuinfo and pytest. It is used by 58 tracked packages, including langchain-tests, datadog-checks-dev and crackerjack.

GitHub topics include pytest, benchmark and benchmarking.

Downloads
Day
381.9K
Week
3.0M
Month
15.6M
Stars
1.4K
Forks
133
Issues
110
Version
5.2.3

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
65
Adoption
60
Community
55
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
20 days ago
Monthly downloads
15,603,779
• 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
15,603,779
Stars
1,443
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
428,163
Month daily avg
520,126
Momentum
-17.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
BSD-2-Clause
• 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
239 days ago
Total releases
49
Releases/year
4.2
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
50
Monthly downloads
15,603,779
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
59
 
Issue Burden
76.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
37.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
218d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 253.2K
Windows 9.6K
macOS 8.7K

Python Versions

3.12
32.9% 85.1K
3.11
29.1% 75.3K
3.14
17.5% 45.3K
3.13
13.3% 34.5K
3.10
7.3% 18.9K

Top Countries

1. US US
209.1K
2. DE DE
40.1K
3. SG SG
4.5K
4. IE IE
2.8K
5. JP JP
2.6K
6. NL NL
2.3K
7. GB GB
1.8K
8. CN CN
1.4K
9. HK HK
1.4K
10. KR KR
1.3K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD-2-Clause
First Release
October 11, 2014
Last Release
8 months ago
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Latest Version
5.2.3
Total Releases
49
Contributors
50
Open PRs
9
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
pytest benchmark
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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