PyPI Stats
lucidrains

vit-pytorch

Implementation of Vision Transformer, a simple way to achieve SOTA in vision classification with only a single transformer encoder, in Pytorch
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
11.9K
Week
38.3K
Month
108.9K
Stars
25.1K
Forks
3.5K
Issues
131
Version
1.20.4

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
91
Adoption
90
Community
60
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
5 days ago
Monthly downloads
108,940
• 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
108,940
Stars
25,138
Stars per 1k downloads
230.75
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
5,465
Month daily avg
3,631
Momentum
+50.5%
((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
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
5 days ago
Total releases
271
Releases/year
48.5
• 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
27
Monthly downloads
108,940
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
69
 
Issue Burden
5.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.4
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
0.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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Downloads by OS

Linux 4.2K
Windows 11

Python Versions

3.12
75.1% 3.2K
3.11
14.5% 608
3.10
5.2% 219
3.13
4.2% 176
3.9
1.0% 42

Top Countries

1. US US
4.1K
2. SG SG
86
3. DE DE
45
4. IE IE
44
5. CN CN
22
6. JP JP
15
7. NL NL
14
8. ES ES
13
9. SE SE
12
10. AU AU
10

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
October 4, 2020
Last Release
5 days ago
Last Commit
5 days ago
Latest Version
1.20.4
Total Releases
271
Contributors
27
Open PRs
11
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
py3
Keywords
artificial intelligence attention mechanism image recognition
Topics
artificial-intelligence attention-mechanism transformers computer-vision image-classification
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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