Top depended upon modules
| Rank | Depended on count | Module |
| 1 | 2,300 | santoku by broma0 |
| 2 | 2,071 | LuaSocket by lunarmodules |
| 3 | 2,021 | lua-cjson by OpenResty |
| 4 | 1,649 | LuaFileSystem by hisham |
| 5 | 1,320 | lua-resty-http by pintsized |
| 6 | 1,089 | argparse by argparse |
| 7 | 1,006 | LPeg by gvvaughan |
| 8 | 976 | plenary.nvim by Conni2461 |
| 9 | 975 | penlight by Tieske |
| 10 | 892 | santoku-fs by broma0 |
| 11 | 809 | LuaSec by lunarmodules |
| 12 | 730 | dkjson by dhkolf |
| 13 | 678 | santoku-system by broma0 |
| 14 | 483 | lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags |
| 15 | 454 | santoku-template by broma0 |
| 16 | 449 | santoku-bundle by broma0 |
| 17 | 438 | nvim-nio by neotest |
| 18 | 433 | luaposix by gvvaughan |
| 19 | 408 | santoku-sqlite by broma0 |
| 20 | 405 | santoku-mustache by broma0 |
| 21 | 390 | inspect by kikito |
| 22 | 368 | Copas by Tieske |
| 23 | 348 | bit32 by siffiejoe |
| 24 | 332 | busted by lunarmodules |
| 25 | 323 | santoku-matrix by broma0 |
| 26 | 319 | ansicolors by kikito |
| 27 | 315 | neotest by neotest |
| 28 | 293 | lua-resty-cookie by utix |