gin-gonic/gin

Gin is a high-performance HTTP web framework written in Go. It provides a Martini-like API but with significantly better performance—up to 40 times faster—thanks to httprouter. Gin is designed for building REST APIs, web applications, and microservices.

89.3k stars · 8.7k forks · Go

Caution

Caution: the median first response takes over 30 days.

Why

Maintainers took a median of 56 days to first respond to 8 recent issues. (source 1, source 2, source 3, source 4)

What would change this

Maintainers reply faster, with a median under 30 days.

Maintenance

Complete

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 16
Human commits, 90 days: 18
Human commits, 365 days: 92
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 21%
Last commit: Oct 10, 2026 (5 days ago)
Last human commit: Oct 10, 2026 (5 days ago)
Authors, 90 days: 14
Last release: Feb 28, 2026 (7 months ago)
Median PR merge time: 4 days

Responsiveness: of 8 recent issues, 38% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 56 days.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 92 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 10
Authors for 80% of commits: 36
Contributors: 442

Top committers

appleboy: 21% of commits
1911860538: 5% of commits
Amirhf1: 4% of commits
zeek0x: 4% of commits
BobDu: 3% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Feb 5, 2015 to Feb 6, 2015: about 70 more stars than usual, peak 40 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 31, 2015 to Mar 31, 2015: about 33 more stars than usual, peak 39 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 14, 2015 to May 16, 2015: about 205 more stars than usual, peak 107 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 14, 2015 to Nov 15, 2015: about 49 more stars than usual, peak 43 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 8, 2018 to Jan 8, 2018: about 96 more stars than usual, peak 112 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Aug 27, 2019 to Aug 28, 2019: about 94 more stars than usual, peak 77 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 17, 2019 to Sep 19, 2019: about 110 more stars than usual, peak 82 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 29, 2020 to Jun 29, 2020: about 59 more stars than usual, peak 89 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 4, 2021 to Aug 4, 2021: about 98 more stars than usual, peak 125 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 9, 2022 to Mar 9, 2022: about 78 more stars than usual, peak 107 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 20, 2022 to Apr 22, 2022: about 178 more stars than usual, peak 124 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 6, 2022 to May 6, 2022: about 86 more stars than usual, peak 120 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 18, 2022 to May 21, 2022: about 242 more stars than usual, peak 110 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 8, 2022 to Jun 8, 2022: about 68 more stars than usual, peak 100 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 28, 2022 to Dec 29, 2022: about 63 more stars than usual, peak 70 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 2, 2023 to Jun 3, 2023: about 83 more stars than usual, peak 84 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 18, 2024 to Jun 19, 2024: about 88 more stars than usual, peak 87 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 8, 2025 to Apr 10, 2025: about 183 more stars than usual, peak 113 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Sep 23, 2025 to Sep 30, 2025: about 1.8k more stars than usual, peak 626 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a new release.

5 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

The star history looks organic.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: MIT (OSI-approved)
A year ago: MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

github.com/gin-gonic/gin (GO): latest v1.12.0, published Feb 28, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 6.0 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: gin-gonic/gin, deps.dev: Go github.com/gin-gonic/gin

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Oct 13, 2026: Caution
Oct 13, 2026: Caution

Computed 19 hours ago · method 2026.10.2