modin-project/modin vs pola-rs/polars
pola-rs/polars shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, polars shows healthier maintenance signals than modin. polars rates Healthy overall while modin rates Mixed. modin last saw a commit 7 months ago with 10+ active contributors, while polars was committed to 3 weeks ago with 24+ active contributors. modin is Apache-2.0-licensed while polars is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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modin-project/modin
Slowing — last commit 6mo 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 6mo ago; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10…
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 6mo ago
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 6mo ago
- ✓10 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 47% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 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
pola-rs/polars
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 1d ago
- ✓24+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 18% 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
| modin | polars | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 10,390 | 39,446 |
| Last commit | 7mo ago | 25d ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 713 | 2,857 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 56% | 31% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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