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astral-sh/uv vs pdm-project/pdm

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

As of September 2026, uv and pdm both show healthy maintenance signals. uv was committed to 1 day ago with 10+ active contributors, while pdm was committed to 3 days ago with 29+ active contributors. uv is Apache-2.0-licensed while pdm is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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astral-sh/uv

Healthy

Strong maintenance signals

MixedDependency

dependency CVE scan unavailable

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

dependency CVE scan unavailable

  • Last commit today
  • 10 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 26% of recent commits)
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

pdm-project/pdm

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

HealthyDependency

No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.

  • Last commit today
  • 29+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 42% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

uvpdm
Stars89,8628,674
Last commit1d ago3d ago
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Open issues2,90144
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage97%100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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