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sqlfluff

sqlfluff

A modular SQL linter and auto-formatter with support for multiple dialects and templated code.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

sqlfluff has 10.7M monthly downloads and 10K GitHub stars. Version 4.2.2 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2018.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is built on top of chardet, click and colorama. It is used by 60 tracked packages, including sqlfluff-templater-dbt, sqllineage and data-designer-engine.

GitHub topics include sql-linter and sql.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (sqlfluff/sqlfluff) with 2 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
317.8K
Week
2.3M
Month
10.7M
Stars
9.8K
Forks
1.0K
Issues
326
Version
4.2.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
85
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1 days ago
Monthly downloads
10,652,185
• 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
10,652,185
Stars
9,791
Stars per 1k downloads
0.92
• 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
333,636
Month daily avg
355,073
Momentum
-6.0%
((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 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
32 days ago
Total releases
156
Releases/year
20.4
• 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
559
Monthly downloads
10,652,185
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
65
 
Issue Burden
33.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
53.6%
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 143.5K
Windows 2.9K
macOS 2.5K

Python Versions

3.12
49.4% 69.9K
3.11
23.8% 33.7K
3.13
14.9% 21.1K
3.10
6.7% 9.5K
3.14
5.1% 7.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
94.6K
2. SG SG
30.6K
3. DE DE
10.4K
4. IE IE
5.9K
5. NL NL
2.8K
6. GB GB
1.7K
7. BE BE
1.6K
8. JP JP
1.4K
9. AU AU
935
10. FR FR
710
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
November 7, 2018
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
2 days ago
Latest Version
4.2.2
Total Releases
156
Contributors
559
Open PRs
34
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
sqlfluff sql linter formatter athena bigquery clickhouse databricks db2 doris duckdb exasol flink greenplum hive impala materialize mariadb mysql postgres redshift snowflake soql sparksql sqlite starrocks teradata trino tsql vertica dbt
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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