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pdfo

pdfo

Powell's Derivative-Free Optimization solvers.
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
101
Week
1.9K
Month
10.5K
Stars
108
Forks
29
Issues
4
Version
2.2.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
43
Adoption
40
Community
40
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
439 days ago
Monthly downloads
10,540
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
10,540
Stars
108
Stars per 1k downloads
10.25
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
274
Month daily avg
351
Momentum
-22.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
701 days ago
Total releases
10
Releases/year
1.7
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
5
Monthly downloads
10,540
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
50
 
Issue Burden
37.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
17.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
262d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 60
Windows 58
macOS 33

Python Versions

3.9
28.2% 42
3.11
24.8% 37
3.10
24.2% 36
3.8
21.5% 32
3.12
1.3% 2

Top Countries

1. US US
147
2. SG SG
8
3. JP JP
6
4. HK HK
5
5. GB GB
4
6. CA CA
1
7. PL PL
1

Dependencies

2
7 optional dependencies

Used By

1

Package Information

License
BSD 3-Clause License
First Release
June 10, 2020
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
2.2.0
Total Releases
10
Contributors
5
Open PRs
3
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
cp311
Keywords
blackbox-optimization constrained-optimization derivative-free-optimization hyperparameter-optimization nonlinear-optimization numerical-optimization optimization optimization-algorithms optimization-methods optimization-tools simulation-based-optimization unconstrained-optimization zeroth-order-optimization
Topics
optimization optimization-algorithms derivative-free-optimization blackbox-optimization simulation powell numerical-optimization matlab python fortran bobyqa cobyla lincoa newuoa uobyqa constrained-optimization nonlinear-optimization unconstrained-optimization simulation-based-optimization zeroth-order-optimization
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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