PyPI Stats
QuentinWach

beamz

GPU-accelerated electromagnetic FDTD simulations for compact modeling and inverse design / gradient-based optimization of nanophotonic devices with Python.
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
105
Week
243
Month
780
Stars
34
Forks
7
Issues
24
Version
0.2.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
30
Adoption
28
Community
30
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
25 days ago
Monthly downloads
780
• 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
780
Stars
34
Stars per 1k downloads
43.59
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
Needs at least 1,000 monthly downloads to classify popularity.
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
35
Month daily avg
26
Momentum
—
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Momentum not reported for packages with < 5,000 monthly downloads — percentages are noisy at low volume.
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
67 days ago
Total releases
18
Releases/year
18.1
• 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
3
Monthly downloads
780
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
43
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
42.9%
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

No OS data available

Python Versions

No Python version data available

Top Countries

1. US US
4
2. CA CA
1
3. SG SG
1

Dependencies

10
13 optional dependencies

Used By

0
Not used by any tracked packages

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
May 8, 2025
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Latest Version
0.2.1
Total Releases
18
Contributors
3
Open PRs
3
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
py3
Keywords
electromagnetics generative design inverse design photonics simulation
Topics
electromagnetics fdtd inverse-design photonics physics simulation nanophotonics gpu-acceleration jax compact-model gdsfactory s-matrix sax
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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