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uv vs Poetry vs pip
A side-by-side look at how actively uv, Poetry and pip are developed on GitHub — popularity, contributor base, commit activity and how quickly issues and pull requests move.
What the numbers say
- uv is the most-starred of the 3, with 90k stars — about 8.8× pip's 10k.
- Over the 52 weeks to the snapshot, uv recorded the most commits (3.1k), against 245 for Poetry.
- uv has closed or merged the most pull requests in its lifetime: 12k.
- Relative to its popularity, Poetry carries the lightest open-issue load: 14.0 open issues per 1,000 stars, versus 82.6 for pip.
Head-to-head
Snapshot taken 30 September 2026.
| Metric | uv Active | Poetry Active | pip Slowing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 90k | 34k | 10k |
| Forks | 3.6k | 2.5k | 3.4k |
| Contributors | 596 | 685 | 906 |
| Commits, last 52 weeks | 3.1k | 245 | 732 |
| Open issues | 2.4k | 479 | 850 |
| Open pull requests | 566 | 102 | 104 |
| Closed / merged PRs | 12k | 3.5k | 6.3k |
| Watchers | 188 | 187 | 316 |
| Last push | 30 Sep 2026 | 28 Sep 2026 | 23 Sep 2026 |
| Latest release | 0.12.21 (Sep 2026) | 2.5.1 (Sep 2026) | none published |
| Main language | Rust | Python | Python |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | MIT | MIT |
| Created | Oct 2023 | Feb 2018 | Mar 2011 |
Bold marks the highest value in a row. “Active / Slowing / Dormant” is a simple heuristic from how recently code was pushed and open issues per star — a starting point, not a verdict. Stars measure popularity, not quality.
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