Piskvorky Gensim by piskvorky
Topic Modelling for Humans
About Piskvorky Gensim
From the project's README at github.com/piskvorky/gensim. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.
gensim - Topic Modelling in Python ==================================
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Gensim is a Python library for topic modelling, document indexing and similarity retrieval with large corpora. Target audience is the natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval* (IR) community. Want to help out? Sponsor Gensim Gensim is in stable maintenance mode: we are not accepting new features, but bug and documentation fixes are still welcome!
Health score breakdown
6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.
Adoption signals
Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.
| Signal | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 16k | github.com/piskvorky/gensim |
| GitHub forks | 4.4k | github.com/piskvorky/gensim |
Release & maintenance
Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.
| Project age | 15.2 years | since Feb 2011 |
| Last commit | 6 months ago | Nov 1, 2025 |
| Releases shipped | 44 | last: 7 months ago |
| Security policy | SECURITY.md | declared by maintainers |
| Funding links | 1 | declared by maintainers |
Self-hosting cost across providers
Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.
| Provider | Plan | Specs | Monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hetzner | CAX11 | 2c · 4GB · 40GB | $4.13 USD | Deploy → |
| vultr | VC2 | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $5 USD | Deploy → |
| linode | Nanode 1GB | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $5.12 USD | Deploy → |
| digitalocean | Basic Regular 1GB | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $6 USD | Deploy → |
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Ready to self-host Piskvorky Gensim?
Spin up a hetzner CAX11 (4GB RAM, 40GB disk) for $4.13/mo and follow the project's official install docs.
Data last refreshed May 7, 2026.
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