PyPI Stats
SimonBlanke

gradient-free-optimizers

Lightweight optimization with local, global, population-based and sequential techniques across mixed search spaces
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
614
Week
3.2K
Month
15.1K
Stars
1.3K
Forks
95
Issues
17
Version
1.12.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
63
Adoption
41
Community
10
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
5 days ago
Monthly downloads
15,139
• 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
15,139
Stars
1,272
Stars per 1k downloads
84.02
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
451
Month daily avg
505
Momentum
-10.6%
((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
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
18 days ago
Total releases
62
Releases/year
10.2
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
7
Monthly downloads
15,139
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
31
 
Issue Burden
13.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
3.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
7.4%
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 127
macOS 32
Windows 30

Python Versions

3.11
46.9% 84
3.10
19.0% 34
3.12
14.0% 25
3.13
10.1% 18
3.14
10.1% 18

Top Countries

1. US US
181
2. CN CN
6
3. HK HK
4
4. CH CH
2
5. JP JP
2
6. KR KR
2
7. TW TW
2
8. CA CA
1

Dependencies

3
13 optional dependencies

Used By

3

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
April 16, 2020
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
5 days ago
Latest Version
1.12.0
Total Releases
62
Contributors
7
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
optimization hyperparameter-optimization hyperparameter-tuning machine-learning meta-heuristic bayesian-optimization genetic-algorithm particle-swarm evolution-strategy hill-climbing simulated-annealing gradient-free black-box-optimization numerical-optimization automl search-algorithms optimization-algorithms data-science visualization
Topics
optimization gradient-free-optimization bayesian-optimization particle-swarm-optimization evolution-strategies simulated-annealing random-search hill-climbing meta-heuristic machine-learning tree-of-parzen-estimator hyperparameter-optimization blackbox-optimization constrained-optimization nelder-mead
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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