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vega

altair

Declarative visualization library for Python
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Shared Repository

This package shares its GitHub repository (vega/altair) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
2.0M
Week
12.1M
Month
52.0M
Stars
10.4K
Forks
845
Issues
133
Version
6.2.0.dev20260427

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
85
Adoption
70
Community
70
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
15 days ago
Monthly downloads
51,994,137
• 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
51,994,137
Stars
10,362
Stars per 1k downloads
0.20
• 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
1,722,179
Month daily avg
1,733,138
Momentum
-0.6%
((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
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
9 days ago
Total releases
63
Releases/year
6.4
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
189
Monthly downloads
51,994,137
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
83
 
Issue Burden
12.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
15.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
22.4%
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 1.2M
Windows 44.6K
macOS 15.7K

Python Versions

3.11
31.8% 361.0K
3.10
29.8% 338.4K
3.12
24.3% 275.8K
3.13
7.6% 85.9K
3.14
6.4% 72.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
791.8K
2. IE IE
116.7K
3. NL NL
84.5K
4. IN IN
47.2K
5. DE DE
25.7K
6. SG SG
25.4K
7. AU AU
23.1K
8. BR BR
17.8K
9. IT IT
14.6K
10. GB GB
13.4K

Package Information

License
BSD 3-Clause License
First Release
July 9, 2016
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
6.2.0.dev20260427
Total Releases
63
Contributors
189
Open PRs
22
Archived
No
Author
Vega-Altair Contributors
Python Versions
3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
declarative interactive json statistics vega-lite visualization
Topics
-
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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