sharkdp/hyperfine

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

189

Human commits, 90 days

189

Human commits, 365 days

198

Bot share of commits, 365 days

3%

Last commit

Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)

Last human commit

Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)

Authors, 90 days

15

Last release

Oct 7, 2026 (7 days ago)

Median PR merge time

under an hour

Responsiveness: of 2 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

• Only 2 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Personal account

Commits sampled

198 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

1

Authors for 80% of commits

1

Contributors

122

Top committers

• sharkdp: 88% of commits
• Eric Soler: 2% of commits
• devonhollowood: 1% of commits
• kobihikri: 1% of commits
• meop: 1% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Mar 25, 2018 to Mar 27, 2018: about 76 more stars than usual, peak 54 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 31, 2018 to Aug 31, 2018: about 17 more stars than usual, peak 19 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Nov 19, 2018 to Nov 20, 2018: about 52 more stars than usual, peak 45 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Jan 9, 2019 to Jan 10, 2019: about 48 more stars than usual, peak 32 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Sep 1, 2019 to Sep 5, 2019: about 207 more stars than usual, peak 92 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Oct 14, 2019 to Oct 18, 2019: about 348 more stars than usual, peak 212 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 26, 2019 to Nov 29, 2019: about 88 more stars than usual, peak 41 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Nov 21, 2021 to Nov 23, 2021: about 66 more stars than usual, peak 46 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 28, 2021 to Dec 30, 2021: about 206 more stars than usual, peak 122 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 7, 2022 to Mar 11, 2022: about 73 more stars than usual, peak 35 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Apr 13, 2022 to Apr 14, 2022: about 63 more stars than usual, peak 54 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Jul 6, 2022 to Jul 8, 2022: about 116 more stars than usual, peak 60 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• May 29, 2023 to May 30, 2023: about 63 more stars than usual, peak 42 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Sep 11, 2023 to Sep 13, 2023: about 82 more stars than usual, peak 53 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Feb 16, 2024 to Feb 19, 2024: about 99 more stars than usual, peak 57 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Aug 1, 2024 to Aug 2, 2024: about 52 more stars than usual, peak 40 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Nov 8, 2024 to Nov 9, 2024: about 53 more stars than usual, peak 46 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 18, 2024 to Nov 22, 2024: about 503 more stars than usual, peak 313 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
• Mar 19, 2025 to Mar 21, 2025: about 170 more stars than usual, peak 123 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Apr 20, 2026 to Apr 21, 2026: about 53 more stars than usual, peak 51 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Oct 8, 2026 to Oct 11, 2026: about 102 more stars than usual, peak 57 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.

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

Flags

• Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 3.1 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details

License

Now

Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)

A year ago

Not known

Packages

• hyperfine (CARGO): latest 2.0.0, published Oct 7, 2026
  Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 3.1 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: sharkdp/hyperfine, deps.dev: Cargo hyperfine