Package
leven
Measure the difference between two strings using the Levenshtein distance algorithm
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 49m
- +53% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 0
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 1 year ago
- v4.1.0
- GitHub stars
- 734
- 33 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 0 / 0
- Contributors
- 8
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 1
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
49,019,178 downloads last week, 235,135,578 in the last month. The 12-month change of +53% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 09 in total
- Latest version
- 4.1.0, 11 Sept 20251 year ago
- First published
- 9 Aug 2014
- Last push to GitHub
- 25 Jul 202661 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 0
- Open pull requests
- 0
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 1
- Dependents on npm
- 1,553
Major versions
- v4 first release 4.0.0, 10 Aug 2021
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 12 Mar 2019
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 7 Sept 2015
- v1 first release 1.0.0, 9 Aug 2014
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 4.1.0 | 11 Sept 2025 |
| 4.0.0 | 10 Aug 2021 |
| 3.1.0 | 4 Apr 2019 |
| 3.0.0 | 12 Mar 2019 |
| 2.1.0 | 18 Feb 2017 |
| 2.0.0 | 7 Sept 2015 |
| 1.0.2 | 16 May 2015 |
| 1.0.1 | 7 Oct 2014 |
| 1.0.0 | 9 Aug 2014 |
- Module format
- ESM onlyFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- ^12.20.0 || ^14.13.1 || >=16.0.0
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 10.0 kB
- Dependencies (0)
- None
npm install leven- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/leven@4.1.0/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/leven@4.1.0/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/leven@4.1.0
| Package | Weekly downloads | Gzip | Last release | Module | Comparison |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| js-levenshtein | 8.6m | - | 7 years ago | - | leven vs js-levenshtein |
Indexability: Indexed.