Is Levenshtein safe to use?

Levenshtein has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.27.4). DepScope rates its health at 83/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of Levenshtein?

The latest version of Levenshtein is 0.27.4, released 2026-08-08.

Does Levenshtein have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of Levenshtein.

Is Levenshtein deprecated?

No, Levenshtein is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.27.4 (2026-08-08).

What are alternatives to Levenshtein?

Popular alternatives to Levenshtein in PyPI include: typing_extensions, setuptools, cffi, annotated_types, typing-inspection.

What license does Levenshtein use?

Levenshtein is licensed under GPL-2.0-or-later.

Levenshtein

pypiv0.27.4

Python extension for computing string edit distances and similarities.

License GPL-2.0-or-later35 versions1 maintainers1 deps4,981,110 weekly dl

rapidfuzz/Levenshtein

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 83/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

17/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

4/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

Quality signals

Publish security

API token

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (1)

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Levenshtein

pypiv0.27.4

Python extension for computing string edit distances and similarities.

License GPL-2.0-or-later35 versions1 maintainers1 deps4,981,110 weekly dl

rapidfuzz/Levenshtein

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 83/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

17/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

4/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

Quality signals

Publish security

API token

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (1)

rapidfuzz

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

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