diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8c480d3e..eaae81fe 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@
 """
 
 import os
-from typing import Tuple, List, Dict
+from typing import Dict, List, Tuple
+
 from setuptools import find_packages, setup
 
 # default variables to be overwritten by the version.py file
diff --git a/src/sparsezoo/__init__.py b/src/sparsezoo/__init__.py
index acdfe7a6..78d04453 100644
--- a/src/sparsezoo/__init__.py
+++ b/src/sparsezoo/__init__.py
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 """
-Functionality for accessing models, recipes, and supporting files in the SparseZoo
+- Functionality for accessing models, recipes, and supporting files in the SparseZoo
+- Notify the user the last pypi package version
 """
 
 # flake8: noqa
@@ -25,3 +26,12 @@
 from .main import *
 from .models.zoo import *
 from .objects import *
+from .package import *
+
+
+from sparsezoo.package import check_package_version as _check_package_version
+
+_check_package_version(
+    package_name=__name__ if is_release else f"{__name__}-nightly",
+    package_version=version,
+)
diff --git a/src/sparsezoo/package.py b/src/sparsezoo/package.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8c8d049d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/sparsezoo/package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2021 - present / Neuralmagic, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import logging
+import os
+import threading
+from typing import Optional
+
+import requests
+
+from sparsezoo.requests import LATEST_PACKAGE_VERSION_URL
+
+
+LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def package_version_check_request(
+    package_name: str, package_version: str, package_integration: Optional[str]
+):
+    """
+    Make an api call to api-neuralmagic.com, retrieve payload and check if the
+    user is on the latest package version. Lambda: nm-get-latest-version
+
+    :param package_name: package name of the client
+    :param package_version: package version of the client
+    :param package_integration: package integration of the client
+    """
+    url = (
+        f"{LATEST_PACKAGE_VERSION_URL}?"
+        f"packages={package_name}"
+        f"&integrations={package_integration}"
+        f"&versions={package_version}"
+    )
+    try:
+        response = requests.get(url)  # no token-headers required
+        response.raise_for_status()
+        response_json = response.json()
+
+        for checked_package in response_json["checked_packages"]:
+            if not checked_package["is_latest"]:
+                LOGGER.warning(
+                    "WARNING: "
+                    f"You are using {checked_package['package_name']} "
+                    f"version {checked_package['user_package_version']} "
+                    f"however version {checked_package['latest_package_version']} "
+                    "is available.\n"
+                    "Consider upgrading via executing the "
+                    f"'pip install --upgrade' command.\n"
+                    "To turn off set an environmental variable "
+                    "NM_VERSION_CHECK=false"
+                )
+    except Exception as err:
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            f"Execption occured in the Neural Magic's internal version-api check\n{err}"
+        )
+
+
+def version_check_execution_condition(
+    package_name: str, package_version: str, package_integration: Optional[str]
+):
+    """
+    Check if conditions are met to run the version-check api
+
+    :param package_name: package name of the client
+    :param package_version: package version of the client
+    :param package_integration: package integration of the client
+    """
+    if (
+        os.getenv("NM_VERSION_CHECK") is None
+        or os.getenv("NM_VERSION_CHECK").lower().strip() != "false"
+    ):
+        package_version_check_request(
+            package_name=package_name,
+            package_integration=package_integration,
+            package_version=package_version,
+        )
+    else:
+        LOGGER.info(
+            "Skipping Neural Magic's internal code exection: "
+            "latest package version check"
+        )
+
+
+def check_package_version(
+    package_name: str, package_version: str, package_integration: Optional[str] = None
+):
+    """
+    Run a background thread to run version-check api
+
+    :param package_name: package name of the client
+    :param package_version: package version of the client
+    :param package_integration: package integration of the client
+    """
+    threading.Thread(
+        target=version_check_execution_condition,
+        kwargs={
+            "package_name": package_name,
+            "package_version": package_version,
+            "package_integration": package_integration,
+        },
+    ).start()
diff --git a/src/sparsezoo/requests/base.py b/src/sparsezoo/requests/base.py
index 67f075ba..b59c5174 100644
--- a/src/sparsezoo/requests/base.py
+++ b/src/sparsezoo/requests/base.py
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
     "RecipeArgs",
     "RECIPES_API_URL",
     "parse_zoo_stub",
+    "LATEST_PACKAGE_VERSION_URL",
 ]
 
 
@@ -43,6 +44,7 @@
 )
 MODELS_API_URL = f"{BASE_API_URL}/models"
 RECIPES_API_URL = f"{BASE_API_URL}/recipes"
+LATEST_PACKAGE_VERSION_URL = f"{BASE_API_URL}/packages/check-latest"
 
 # optional prefix for stubs
 ZOO_STUB_PREFIX = "zoo:"
diff --git a/src/sparsezoo/version.py b/src/sparsezoo/version.py
index d24bd879..0d8d8c23 100644
--- a/src/sparsezoo/version.py
+++ b/src/sparsezoo/version.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 Functionality for storing and setting the version info for SparseZoo
 """
 
+
 from datetime import date