Is PEFT Still Maintained? Live GitHub Status
On GitHub, the project describes itself as: “🤗 PEFT: State-of-the-art Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning.”
Short answer: Yes, it is actively maintained. Health score 93/100. Checked 18 Oct 2026.
What the numbers say
PEFT’s main branch received 215 commits in the last 91 days, against 119 in the same 91 days a year earlier (+81%). Activity is at least half of last year’s pace and no maintenance notice was found, so the index labels it active. It has 21,803 stars on GitHub.
PEFT usage: downloads and installs
peftTrend: the monthly download count is stored once a day, starting 17 Oct 2026. A chart appears here after a week of readings.
Download and pull counts include automated installs from CI pipelines, containers and mirrors, so they show how widely the software is pulled, not how many people use it. Numbers from different registries are not comparable with each other. Sources: PyPI download statistics via ecosyste.ms, read 18 Oct 2026, 22:03 UTC.
PEFT security practices and adoption
Used by other projects
deps.dev: PyPI packages that depend on peft 0.21.2
- Indirect dependents159
- All dependents772
- RegistryPyPI
Scorecard checks security practices such as code review, branch protection and pinned dependencies; it does not find bugs, and a low score does not mean the software is unsafe. Dependents and download counts show reach, not quality. Sources: deps.dev, GitHub, read 17 Oct 2026, 18:03 UTC.
Health score breakdown
| Part | Points | Based on |
|---|---|---|
| Activity | 29.4 / 35 | 215 commits in the last 91 days (full marks at 600) |
| Trend | 20.0 / 20 | 181% of last year’s pace (full marks at 100%) |
| Recency | 15.0 / 15 | last commit 2 days ago |
| Releases | 10.0 / 10 | latest GitHub release 17 days ago |
| Community | 18.9 / 20 | 216 pull requests merged in the last 91 days (full marks at 300) |
Open issues and pull requests: 121. The score summarises maintenance signals only, not quality or security. How the score works
PEFT: common questions
Is PEFT still maintained?
Yes. As of 18 October 2026, PEFT received 215 commits in the last 91 days and its latest commit is from 16 October 2026, and no maintenance notice was found. Its health score is 93 out of 100.
What is the latest PEFT release?
The latest GitHub release of PEFT is v0.21.2, published on 1 October 2026.
How many people contribute to PEFT?
GitHub lists 371 contributors for PEFT. 216 pull requests were merged in the last 91 days.
What licence does PEFT use?
GitHub identifies the PEFT licence as Apache-2.0. Read the licence file before commercial use.
How many times is PEFT downloaded?
The peft package on PyPI was downloaded 8,262,388 times in the last month, according to ecosyste.ms (checked 18 October 2026). The count includes automated installs from CI pipelines and mirrors, so it is not a count of users.
How is the health score calculated?
It adds five parts from public GitHub data: commit activity over 91 days (35 points), the trend against the same period last year (20), how recent the last commit is (15), how recent the last release is (10) and merged pull requests (20). Archived projects score 0; a maintenance notice caps the score at 25. It measures maintenance signals only, not code quality or security.
Visitor rating
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Ratings come from visitors, not from EvalAITools, and are not part of the health status above. One rating per visitor per tool every 30 days.
Daily snapshots
| Date (UTC) | Stars | Commits, last 91 days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Oct 2026 | 21,796 | 215 | Active |
| 17 Oct 2026 | 21,794 | 215 | Active |
One snapshot is stored per day, starting 16 October 2026. No status change has been recorded for PEFT since then.
Other fine-tuning & training
Status badge
Show PEFT’s live maintenance status in a README. The badge updates with this page and links back to it.
[](https://evalaitools.com/tools/peft/)How this is measured: commits on the repository’s default branch counted through the GitHub API, the last 91 days against the same 91 days a year earlier; archived flag and licence from the repository; README checked daily for maintenance notices. Commit counts measure activity, not quality, and we have not tested this tool ourselves for this page.