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typeguard

Run-time type checker for Python
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

typeguard has 69.9M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 4.5.2 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2015.

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

It is built on top of importlib-metadata and typing-extensions. It is used by 1,287 tracked packages, including inflect, tyro and jsii.

Downloads
Day
2.3M
Week
16.5M
Month
69.9M
Stars
1.8K
Forks
127
Issues
28
Version
4.5.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
66
Adoption
80
Community
45
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
24 days ago
Monthly downloads
69,932,884
• 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
69,932,884
Stars
1,770
Stars per 1k downloads
0.03
• 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
2,361,985
Month daily avg
2,331,096
Momentum
+1.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
53 days ago
Total releases
77
Releases/year
7.3
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
45
Monthly downloads
69,932,884
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
64
 
Issue Burden
15.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
9.6
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
35.4%
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 1.7M
Windows 15.8K
macOS 9.5K

Python Versions

3.11
55.5% 879.7K
3.12
18.6% 294.3K
3.10
13.8% 219.2K
3.13
7.2% 114.2K
3.9
4.9% 78.5K

Top Countries

1. US US
1.3M
2. IE IE
107.8K
3. NL NL
72.9K
4. DE DE
48.1K
5. GB GB
29.4K
6. CA CA
16.0K
7. SG SG
16.0K
8. IN IN
14.2K
9. JP JP
14.1K
10. KR KR
11.7K

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
December 29, 2015
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Latest Version
4.5.2
Total Releases
77
Contributors
45
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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