Is narwhals safe to use?

narwhals has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (2.21.2). DepScope rates its health at 90/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of narwhals?

The latest version of narwhals is 2.21.2, released 2026-05-16.

Does narwhals have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of narwhals.

Is narwhals deprecated?

No, narwhals is actively maintained. Latest release: 2.21.2 (2026-05-16).

What are alternatives to narwhals?

Popular alternatives to narwhals in PyPI include: boto3, packaging, certifi, urllib3, requests.

What license does narwhals use?

narwhals is licensed under MIT.

narwhals

pypiv2.21.2

Extremely lightweight compatibility layer between dataframe libraries

License MITpermissive237 versions16 deps18,815,687 weekly dl

narwhals-dev/narwhals

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 90/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

5/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

12

Contributors (12m)

13

Primary author dominance

32%

GitHub stars

1,592

Quality signals

Download trend

stable(0%)

Publish security

API token

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (16)

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

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

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

narwhals

pypiv2.21.2

Extremely lightweight compatibility layer between dataframe libraries

License MITpermissive237 versions16 deps18,815,687 weekly dl

narwhals-dev/narwhals

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 90/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

5/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

12

Contributors (12m)

13

Primary author dominance

32%

GitHub stars

1,592

Quality signals

Download trend

stable(0%)

Publish security

API token

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (16)

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

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

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