Is narwhals safe to use?

narwhals has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (2.25.0). DepScope rates its health at 72/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of narwhals?

The latest version of narwhals is 2.25.0, released 2026-08-20.

Does narwhals have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of narwhals.

Is narwhals deprecated?

No, narwhals is actively maintained. Latest release: 2.25.0 (2026-08-20).

What are alternatives to narwhals?

Popular alternatives to narwhals in PyPI include: urllib3, cryptography, cffi, click, pydantic-core.

What license does narwhals use?

narwhals is licensed under MIT.

narwhals

pypiv2.25.0

Extremely lightweight compatibility layer between dataframe libraries

License MITpermissive242 versions1 maintainers15 deps

narwhals-dev/narwhals

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 72/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

7/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

12

Contributors (12m)

13

Primary author dominance

32%

GitHub stars

1,592

Quality signals

Download trend

declining(-43.8%)

Publish security

API token

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (15)

cudf-cu12 dask[dataframe]duckdb ibis-framework packaging pyarrow-hotfix modin pandas polars pyarrow pyspark pyspark[connect]narwhals[duckdb];sqlparse sqlframe

API access

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narwhals

pypiv2.25.0

Extremely lightweight compatibility layer between dataframe libraries

License MITpermissive242 versions1 maintainers15 deps

narwhals-dev/narwhals

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 72/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

7/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

12

Contributors (12m)

13

Primary author dominance

32%

GitHub stars

1,592

Quality signals

Download trend

declining(-43.8%)

Publish security

API token

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (15)

cudf-cu12 dask[dataframe]duckdb ibis-framework packaging pyarrow-hotfix modin pandas polars pyarrow pyspark pyspark[connect]narwhals[duckdb];sqlparse sqlframe

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/pypi/narwhals