Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
91
Adoption
80
Community
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4 days ago
Monthly downloads
218,095,863
•
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
218,095,863
Stars
22,761
Stars per 1k downloads
0.10
•
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
7,468,148
Month daily avg
7,269,862
Momentum
+2.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.11
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
License agreement for matplotlib versions 1.3.0 and later
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
11 days ago
Total releases
111
Releases/year
5.5
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
1,622
Monthly downloads
218,095,863
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
80
Issue Burden
47.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
19.5%
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
4.9M
Windows
218.6K
macOS
125.9K
Python Versions
3.10
34.7%
1.6M
3.12
21.1%
966.7K
3.11
17.2%
788.0K
3.13
17.0%
779.9K
3.9
9.9%
455.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
3.9M
US
2.
DE
212.1K
DE
3.
GB
163.5K
GB
4.
NL
89.9K
NL
5.
CN
89.3K
CN
6.
SG
79.8K
SG
7.
IN
74.9K
IN
8.
IR
62.9K
IR
9.
IE
61.2K
IE
10.
JP
57.0K
JP
Dependencies
9
- contourpy >=1.0.1
- cycler >=0.10
- fonttools >=4.22.0
- kiwisolver >=1.3.1
- numpy >=1.25
- packaging >=20.0
- pillow >=9
- pyparsing >=3
- python-dateutil >=2.7
Package Information
License
License agreement for matplotlib versions 1.3.0 and later
First Release
January 9, 2006
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
3.11.0rc1
Total Releases
111
Contributors
1,622
Open PRs
410
Archived
No
Author
John D. Hunter, Michael Droettboom
Python Versions
3
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp26
cp27
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp34
cp35
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
pp310
pp311
pp37
pp38
pp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh