JupyterLab
Web-based environment for interactive and reproducible computing.
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Still maintained? Yes: 155 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v4.6.5 (Oct 2026).
At a glance
JupyterLab quick facts
- Health score
- 97/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 15,381
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v4.6.5, Oct 2026
- Licence
- BSD-3-Clause
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "An extensible environment for interactive and reproducible computing, based on the Jupyter Notebook and Architecture."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
JupyterLab scores 97/100, #4 of 14 in Software Development - IDE & Tools: 155 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v4.6.5, yesterday) earns 25.0 of 25, 15,381 stars add 16.7 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 3.3 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
155 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v4.6.5 released yesterday
- Stars biggest shortfall 16.7 / 20
15k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 155
- Last 90 days
- 646
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #4 of 14 tools in Software Development - IDE & Tools by health , between Coder (#3) and Lowdefy (#5) .
Details
| Licence | BSD-3-Clause |
| Platforms | Python, Docker |
| Latest release | v4.6.5 · yesterday |
| Stars | 15,381 |
| Open issues | 2,388 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | jupyterlab/jupyterlab ↗ |
JupyterLab vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with JupyterLab (Software Development - IDE & Tools), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| code-server | 100 | 80k | MIT | yesterday |
| Langfuse | 98 | 37k | MIT | today |
| Coder | 97 | 17k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| JupyterLab (this tool) | 97 | 15k | BSD-3-Clause | today |
| Lowdefy | 94 | 3k | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| Eclipse Che | 92 | 7.2k | EPL-1.0 | 2 days ago |
JupyterLab: common questions
Is JupyterLab still maintained?
JupyterLab had 155 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, v4.6.5, is from yesterday. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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