No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pytest-instafail has 7.8M monthly downloads and 146 GitHub stars. Version 0.5.0 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2013.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2023.
It is used by 7 tracked packages, including promium, desto and dott-ng.
GitHub topics include pytest, testing and pytest-plugin.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
45
Popularity
41
Adoption
70
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
126 days ago
Monthly downloads
7,782,798
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
7,782,798
Stars
146
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
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
246,585
Month daily avg
259,427
Momentum
-5.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
BSD
•
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
1193 days ago
Total releases
9
Releases/year
0.7
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
109
Monthly downloads
7,782,798
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
42
Issue Burden
20.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
990.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1066d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
215.0K
Windows
1.4K
macOS
708
Python Versions
3.10
59.8%
127.7K
3.11
11.8%
25.2K
3.12
10.8%
23.1K
3.13
9.5%
20.3K
3.14
8.0%
17.0K
Top Countries
1.
US
210.6K
US
2.
CH
1.2K
CH
3.
IE
864
IE
4.
RU
856
RU
5.
DE
705
DE
6.
SG
483
SG
7.
ID
388
ID
8.
HK
367
HK
9.
AU
280
AU
10.
IT
227
IT
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
7
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD
First Release
April 7, 2013
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Latest Version
0.5.0
Total Releases
9
Contributors
109
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Janne Vanhala
Python Versions
3
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh