Poetry
Python dependency management and packaging made easy
- Also known as
- poetry
What is Poetry?
Poetry is a tool for dependency management and packaging in Python. It provides project environment isolation, supports both PyPI and private repositories for package discovery and publishing, and enforces PEP 440-compliant versioning.
Poetry pricing
We don't have Poetry's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
What Poetry does
The capabilities that matter for package registries, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Role
- Public registry
- Ecosystem / language
- Python
- Deployment
- CLI-local
- Package formats supported
- -
- Private / scoped packages
- ✓
- Upstream proxy / caching
- -
- Lockfile / deterministic installs
- -
- Workspaces / monorepo
- -
- Content-addressable store
- -
- Supply-chain integrity
- -
- Vulnerability / licence scanning
- -
- Openness
- Open-source
- Pricing model
- Free / OSS
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Self-hosted
Poetry alternatives
Other package registries we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Poetry, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Package Downloads | 94 | 22.00 | 2077.0 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 92 | 10.00 | 922.2 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 34 | 16.00 | 543.6 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 80 | 6.00 | 480.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 29 | 14.00 | 404.7 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 100 | 4.00 | 400.0 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 86 | 4.00 | 342.2 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 8.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Integrations | 0 | 8.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 26.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 8.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 11 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 65% |
Adoption
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"role":"public_registry","ecosystem":"python","deployment":"cli_local","open_source":"oss","pricing_model":"free","private_packages":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Python | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 98% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | MIT | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 95% |
Pricing
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence days | 14 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 70% |