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pyvista

pyvista

3D visualization and mesh analysis for science and engineering
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pyvista has 1.2M monthly downloads and 4K GitHub stars. Version 0.48.4 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 cyclopts, matplotlib and numpy. It is used by 453 tracked packages, including pyvistaqt, pyvista-zstd and ansys-tools-visualization-interface.

GitHub topics include vtk, visualization and 3d.

Downloads
Day
41.7K
Week
291.2K
Month
1.2M
Stars
3.7K
Forks
629
Issues
539
Version
0.48.4

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
77
Adoption
80
Community
80
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,218,796
• 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
1,218,796
Stars
3,730
Stars per 1k downloads
3.06
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
41,607
Month daily avg
40,627
Momentum
+2.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
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
50 days ago
Total releases
116
Releases/year
16.2
• 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
217
Monthly downloads
1,218,796
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
91
 
Issue Burden
144.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
329.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
34.5%
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 25.3K
Windows 2.6K
macOS 949

Python Versions

3.12
44.7% 12.4K
3.11
26.2% 7.3K
3.13
14.5% 4.0K
3.10
10.5% 2.9K
3.14
4.1% 1.1K

Top Countries

1. US US
24.2K
2. NL NL
1.1K
3. DE DE
579
4. CN CN
510
5. SG SG
406
6. JP JP
223
7. GB GB
201
8. IN IN
187
9. IE IE
170
10. HK HK
148
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
May 12, 2019
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
5 days ago
Latest Version
0.48.4
Total Releases
116
Contributors
217
Open PRs
79
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
mesh numpy plotting vtk
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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