No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
scikit-surprise has 164K monthly downloads and 7K GitHub stars. Version 1.1.5 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2017.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.
It is built on top of joblib, numpy and scipy. It is used by 8 tracked packages, including recommenders, surprise and fairreckitlib.
GitHub topics include recommender, systems and recommendation.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
70
Popularity
83
Adoption
62
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
37 days ago
Monthly downloads
163,554
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
163,554
Stars
6,803
Stars per 1k downloads
41.59
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
5,051
Month daily avg
5,452
Momentum
-7.3%
((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
BSD 3-Clause License
•
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
37 days ago
Total releases
13
Releases/year
1.4
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
40
Monthly downloads
163,554
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
63
Issue Burden
10.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
3.8%
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
2.9K
Windows
143
macOS
13
Python Versions
3.11
67.6%
2.0K
3.12
21.7%
643
3.13
6.5%
192
3.14
2.3%
67
3.10
2.0%
59
Top Countries
1.
US
1.3K
US
2.
NL
700
NL
3.
IE
396
IE
4.
KR
316
KR
5.
IN
68
IN
6.
SG
62
SG
7.
CN
37
CN
8.
JP
32
JP
9.
ES
20
ES
10.
TW
20
TW
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD 3-Clause License
First Release
January 2, 2017
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
1.1.5
Total Releases
13
Contributors
40
Open PRs
10
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp314
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh