No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
rapidfuzz has 182.7M monthly downloads and 4K GitHub stars. Version 3.14.5 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2020.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2026.
It is used by 1,181 tracked packages, including levenshtein, fastf1 and openhands-ai.
GitHub topics include string-matching, string-similarity and string-comparison.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
72
Adoption
80
Community
40
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
21 days ago
Monthly downloads
182,749,814
•
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
182,749,814
Stars
3,992
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
6,291,656
Month daily avg
6,091,660
Momentum
+3.3%
((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
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
90 days ago
Total releases
12
Releases/year
1.9
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
35
Monthly downloads
182,749,814
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
58
Issue Burden
7.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
7.5
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
21.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
68d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
3.3M
Windows
47.2K
macOS
35.4K
Python Versions
3.13
36.2%
1.1M
3.12
28.0%
868.9K
3.11
19.0%
588.7K
3.10
12.1%
376.6K
3.14
4.7%
146.7K
Top Countries
1.
US
3.2M
US
2.
DK
82.7K
DK
3.
IE
74.9K
IE
4.
DE
66.7K
DE
5.
SG
51.5K
SG
6.
NL
49.2K
NL
7.
IN
31.4K
IN
8.
FR
28.0K
FR
9.
GB
23.9K
GB
10.
SE
22.2K
SE
Dependencies
0
1 optional dependencies
- numpy[all]
Used By
1181
- levenshtein
- fastf1
- openhands-ai
- openhands-aci
- unstructured
- airbyte-cdk
- opik
- jiwer
- graphifyy
- unstructured-inference
- metricflow
- edgartools
- marker-pdf
- metagit-cli
- fuzzyset2
- python-doctr
- jarowinkler
- weblate
- kfactory
- spotdl
- pptx2md
- codecarbon
- dbt-osmosis
- gpt-researcher
- mycli
- syncedlyrics
- onnxtr
- red-discordbot
- snyk-agent-scan
- polyfuzz
- canvas
- gamesentenceminer
- ovos-workshop
- code-puppy
- bigeye-sdk
- ovos-core
- querysource
- countrynames
- metaapi-cloud-sdk
- bw2data
- hoppr
- super-gradients
- wetterdienst
- aurapro-ui
- unique-web-search
- valentine
- cecli-dev
- not1mm
- casparser-isin
- goldenmatch
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
March 18, 2020
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Latest Version
3.14.5
Total Releases
12
Contributors
35
Open PRs
3
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp27
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp35
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
pp27
pp310
pp311
pp36
pp37
pp38
pp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh