Top depended upon modules
| Rank | Depended on count | Module |
| 1 | 1,794 | LuaSocket by lunarmodules |
| 2 | 1,455 | LuaFileSystem by hisham |
| 3 | 1,409 | lua-cjson by OpenResty |
| 4 | 1,247 | lua-resty-http by pintsized |
| 5 | 1,217 | santoku by broma0 |
| 6 | 913 | penlight by Tieske |
| 7 | 897 | argparse by argparse |
| 8 | 788 | LPeg by gvvaughan |
| 9 | 693 | LuaSec by lunarmodules |
| 10 | 653 | dkjson by dhkolf |
| 11 | 584 | santoku-fs by broma0 |
| 12 | 531 | plenary.nvim by Conni2461 |
| 13 | 456 | lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags |
| 14 | 421 | santoku-system by broma0 |
| 15 | 370 | inspect by kikito |
| 16 | 363 | luaposix by gvvaughan |
| 17 | 339 | bit32 by siffiejoe |
| 18 | 337 | Copas by Tieske |
| 19 | 298 | ansicolors by kikito |
| 20 | 286 | lua-resty-cookie by utix |
| 21 | 284 | nvim-nio by neotest |
| 22 | 265 | busted by lunarmodules |
| 23 | 265 | santoku-template by broma0 |
| 24 | 260 | santoku-bundle by broma0 |
| 25 | 258 | lua-resty-openssl by fffonion |
| 26 | 254 | lyaml by gvvaughan |
| 27 | 247 | MD5 by tomasguisasola |
| 28 | 239 | net-url by golgote |
| 29 | 235 | LuaCrypto by starius |