fastapi/typer vs google/python-fire
fastapi/typer shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, typer shows healthier maintenance signals than python-fire. typer rates Healthy overall while python-fire rates Mixed. typer was committed to 1 week ago with 8+ active contributors, while python-fire last saw a commit 2 months ago with 24+ active contributors. typer is MIT-licensed while python-fire is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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fastapi/typer
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.
- ✓Last commit 1w ago
- ✓8 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 33% 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
google/python-fire
OpenSSF Scorecard says this is unmaintained
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.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 3mo ago
- ✓24+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 40% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)
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
| typer | python-fire | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 19,983 | 28,222 |
| Last commit | 8d ago | 2mo ago |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 46 | 196 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 90% | 69% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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