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pytorch-lightning has 10.7M monthly downloads and 31K GitHub stars. Version 2.6.5 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2019.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.
It is built on top of fsspec, lightning-utilities and packaging. It is used by 562 tracked packages, including lightning, neuralforecast and lightly.
GitHub topics include deep-learning, artificial-intelligence and ai.
Provenance Mismatch
This package's publish attestation (PEP 740) proves it builds from Lightning-AI/pytorch-lightning, not the linked Lightning-AI/lightning. Stars and other GitHub metrics shown here come from the claimed repository.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
92
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4 days ago
Monthly downloads
10,672,576
•
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
10,672,576
Stars
31,218
Stars per 1k downloads
2.93
•
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
334,891
Month daily avg
355,753
Momentum
-5.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
Apache-2.0
•
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
40 days ago
Total releases
257
Releases/year
35.3
•
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
1,035
Monthly downloads
10,672,576
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
87
Issue Burden
26.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
70.8
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
27.6%
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
176.6K
Windows
18.0K
macOS
6.0K
Python Versions
3.12
42.4%
79.9K
3.11
23.6%
44.4K
3.10
19.9%
37.5K
3.9
7.5%
14.1K
3.13
6.6%
12.4K
Top Countries
1.
US
132.9K
US
2.
IE
10.4K
IE
3.
SG
9.6K
SG
4.
DE
5.8K
DE
5.
JP
4.8K
JP
6.
KR
4.1K
KR
7.
CN
4.0K
CN
8.
CA
3.6K
CA
9.
NL
3.6K
NL
10.
HK
3.5K
HK
Dependencies
8
- fsspec >=2022.5.0
- lightning-utilities >=0.10.0
- packaging >=23.0
- pyyaml >5.4
- torch >=2.1.0
- torchmetrics >0.7.0
- tqdm >=4.57.0
- typing-extensions >4.5.0
76 optional dependencies
- bitsandbytes[extra]
- bitsandbytes[all]
- bitsandbytes[dev]
- cloudpickle[test]
- cloudpickle[dev]
- coverage[test]
- coverage[dev]
- deepspeed[all]
- deepspeed[deepspeed]
- deepspeed[dev]
- deepspeed[strategies]
- fastapi[test]
- fastapi[dev]
- huggingface-hub[test]
- huggingface-hub[dev]
- hydra-core[all]
- hydra-core[dev]
- hydra-core[extra]
- ipython[dev]
- ipython[examples]
- ipython[all]
- jsonargparse[dev]
- jsonargparse[extra]
- jsonargparse[all]
- matplotlib[extra]
- matplotlib[dev]
- matplotlib[all]
- numpy[dev]
- numpy[test]
- omegaconf[dev]
- omegaconf[all]
- omegaconf[extra]
- onnx[test]
- onnx[dev]
- onnx-ir[test]
- onnx-ir[dev]
- onnxruntime[dev]
- onnxruntime[test]
- onnxscript[dev]
- onnxscript[test]
- pandas[test]
- pandas[dev]
- psutil[dev]
- psutil[test]
- pytest[test]
- pytest[dev]
- pytest-cov[dev]
- pytest-cov[test]
- pytest-random-order[dev]
- pytest-random-order[test]
- pytest-rerunfailures[dev]
- pytest-rerunfailures[test]
- pytest-timeout[test]
- pytest-timeout[dev]
- requests[dev]
- requests[all]
- requests[examples]
- rich[dev]
- rich[all]
- rich[extra]
- scikit-learn[dev]
- scikit-learn[test]
- tensorboard[dev]
- tensorboard[test]
- tensorboardx[all]
- tensorboardx[dev]
- tensorboardx[extra]
- torch-tensorrt[test-gpu]
- torchmetrics[examples]
- torchmetrics[all]
- torchmetrics[dev]
- torchvision[examples]
- torchvision[all]
- torchvision[dev]
- uvicorn[dev]
- uvicorn[test]
Used By
562
- lightning
- neuralforecast
- lightly
- nucleobench
- neuralprophet
- pytabkit
- unbabel-comet
- prefigure
- boltz
- torchdyn
- grelu
- schnetpack
- endoreg-db
- memolib
- chemeleon-dng
- deepforest
- olpai-volunteer-agent
- lecrapaud
- translate-package
- islp
- neural-amp-modeler
- tsilva-notebook-utils
- pytorch-tabular
- careamics
- pytorchtime
- refchecker
- lightly-train
- boltzgen
- esfex
- anemoi-training
- timecopilot
- codontransformer
- transcript-transformer
- pyclarity
- pytorch-segmentation-models-trainer
- ocf-datapipes
- stable-diffusion-sdkit
- britekit
- cuvis-ai-core
- acids-rave
- decaf-synthetic-data
- boltz-vsynthes
- hordelib
- kailash-ml
- graph-pes
- opensportslib
- bitfount
- pytorch-ie
- metapredict
- opensr-model
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Apache-2.0
First Release
March 31, 2019
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
5 days ago
Latest Version
2.6.5
Total Releases
257
Contributors
1,035
Open PRs
196
Archived
No
Author
Lightning AI et al.
Python Versions
3
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh