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shap has 18.4M monthly downloads and 26K GitHub stars. Version 0.52.0 supports Python 3.12+, first published in 2016.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.
It is built on top of cloudpickle, llvmlite and numba. It is used by 589 tracked packages, including snowflake-ml-python, econml and darts.
GitHub topics include interpretability, machine-learning and deep-learning.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
91
Adoption
100
Community
80
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2 days ago
Monthly downloads
18,371,894
•
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
18,371,894
Stars
25,585
Stars per 1k downloads
1.39
•
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
790,254
Month daily avg
612,396
Momentum
+29.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.12
•
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 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
39 days ago
Total releases
111
Releases/year
11.6
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
277
Monthly downloads
18,371,894
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
89
Issue Burden
21.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
14.6
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
7.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
342.9K
Windows
5.1K
macOS
2.5K
Python Versions
3.10
45.2%
151.2K
3.12
22.2%
74.2K
3.11
19.0%
63.5K
3.9
7.8%
25.9K
3.13
5.8%
19.3K
Top Countries
1.
US
532.6K
US
2.
DK
82.3K
DK
3.
IE
22.2K
IE
4.
DE
17.2K
DE
5.
NL
16.7K
NL
6.
SE
15.9K
SE
7.
JP
13.1K
JP
8.
GB
12.4K
GB
9.
IN
10.6K
IN
10.
CA
7.7K
CA
Dependencies
10
- cloudpickle
- llvmlite <0.46
- numba <0.63
- numpy >=2
- packaging >20.9
- pandas
- scikit-learn
- scipy
- slicer ==0.0.8
- tqdm >=4.27.0
49 optional dependencies
- catboost[test]
- causalml[test]
- datasets[test-notebooks]
- gpboost[test]
- ipython[plots]
- ipython[docs]
- ipywidgets[docs]
- jupyter[test-notebooks]
- keras[test-notebooks]
- lightgbm[test]
- lime[others]
- matplotlib[docs]
- matplotlib[plots]
- mypy[test-core]
- myst-parser[docs]
- nbconvert[test-notebooks]
- nbformat[test-notebooks]
- nbsphinx[docs]
- nbtest-gen[nbtest]
- nbtest-lab-extension[nbtest]
- nbtest-plugin[nbtest]
- ngboost[test]
- nlp[test-notebooks]
- numpy[test]
- numpydoc[docs]
- opencv-python[test]
- protobuf[test]
- pyod[test]
- pyspark[test]
- pytest[test-core]
- pytest[test]
- pytest-cov[test-core]
- pytest-cov[test]
- pytest-mpl[test-core]
- pytest-mpl[test]
- requests[docs]
- scikit-learn[download-datasets]
- selenium[test]
- sentencepiece[test]
- sphinx[docs]
- sphinx-github-changelog[docs]
- sphinx-rtd-theme[docs]
- tensorflow[test]
- tf-keras[test]
- torch[test]
- torchvision[test]
- transformers[test]
- transformers[test-notebooks]
- xgboost[test]
Used By
589
- snowflake-ml-python
- econml
- darts
- causalml
- powershap
- geocif
- interpret-community
- probatus
- explainerdashboard
- upgini
- research-os
- spotforecast2
- lit-nlp
- evalml
- accuinsight
- gamma-facet
- gpce-model
- lecrapaud
- pyxai
- mljar-supervised
- shapash
- ibm-metrics-plugin
- nkululeko
- digital-twinning
- arfs
- cogflow
- hossam
- datupapi
- kreview
- molpipeline
- syntaxmatrix
- lingergrn
- piml
- arthurai
- utilsds
- synthcity
- radiomicsmodellingsuite
- autoviml
- scomp-link
- s2and
- modeva
- thermoverse
- urika
- mcreweight
- target-synthesis-agent
- metalearners
- cnvoyant
- profiles-mlcorelib
- antakia-core
- common-ai
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT License
First Release
December 1, 2016
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
0.52.0
Total Releases
111
Contributors
277
Open PRs
483
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp35
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh