v1.0.0 — GitHub Star Benchmarks (October 2026)

GitHub Star Benchmarks — October 2026 (v1.0.0)

First public snapshot of GitHub's star distribution, measured on 18 October 2026 from the GitHub REST search API.

Headline numbers

Star tier	Repositories	Share of starred repos
1+	32,621,661	100%
100+	484,723	1.49%
1,000+	65,691	0.20%
10,000+	5,650	0.017%
100,000+	132	0.0004%

98.5% of repositories with any star never reach 100. Only 13.5% of 100-star repositories reach 1,000.

In this release

• data/star-counts-2026-10-18.csv — counts above each threshold
• data/language-benchmarks-2026-10-18.csv — conversion by primary language
• data/age-cohorts-2026-10-18.csv — age cohorts of 1,000+ and 100,000+ repositories
• data/top-100-repositories-2026-10-18.csv — the 100 most-starred repositories
• reproduce.py — re-runs every query (unauthenticated, rate-limit aware)
• chart.svg, assets/ — light/dark charts, animated chart, banner

Links

• Full analysis: https://buygithub.com/blog/how-many-github-stars-is-good/
• Documentation: README, DATA_DICTIONARY.md
• Citation: CITATION.cff

License

Data: CC BY 4.0. Code: MIT.

Snapshot data is approximate and changes as repositories move; compare within a single snapshot date.