encode/starlette vs postmanlabs/httpbin
encode/starlette shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, starlette shows healthier maintenance signals than httpbin. starlette rates Healthy overall while httpbin rates Mixed. starlette was committed to 1 week ago with 26+ active contributors, while httpbin last saw a commit 2 years ago with 15+ active contributors. starlette is BSD-3-Clause-licensed while httpbin is ISC-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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encode/starlette
Healthy across all four use cases
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 62% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓26+ active contributors
- ✓BSD-3-Clause 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
postmanlabs/httpbin
Stale — last commit 2y ago
last commit was 2y ago; dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 2y ago; 1 cyclic import chain detected…
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 52% of recent commits
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
- ✓15 active contributors
- ✓ISC licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| starlette | httpbin | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 12,597 | 13,608 |
| Last commit | 9d ago | 2y ago |
| License | BSD-3-Clause | ISC |
| Open issues | 42 | 190 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 76% | 14% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | A |
| Cycles | 8 | 1 |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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