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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

Head-to-head

Snapshot taken 30 September 2026.

Metricuv
Active
Poetry
Active
pip
Slowing
Stars90k34k10k
Forks3.6k2.5k3.4k
Contributors596685906
Commits, last 52 weeks3.1k245732
Open issues2.4k479850
Open pull requests566102104
Closed / merged PRs12k3.5k6.3k
Watchers188187316
Last push30 Sep 202628 Sep 202623 Sep 2026
Latest release0.12.21 (Sep 2026)2.5.1 (Sep 2026)none published
Main languageRustPythonPython
LicenceApache-2.0MITMIT
CreatedOct 2023Feb 2018Mar 2011

The wide bar is that repository’s share of the largest value in its own row — half the length means half the number. The thin gauge beneath it is the same row rescaled from its smallest value to its largest, which makes a close gap such as 61k against 59k visible; on that gauge the row’s lowest value always sits at zero however big it is, so read it as a spread and never as a quantity. Bars compare repositories with each other and never one metric against another. Colour identifies the repository, matching the dot beside its name. On the two issue rows a longer bar means more open work, which is usually the opposite of better. The highlighted cell is 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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