Top depended upon modules
| Rank | Depended on count | Module |
| 1 | 1,987 | santoku by broma0 |
| 2 | 1,956 | LuaSocket by lunarmodules |
| 3 | 1,765 | lua-cjson by OpenResty |
| 4 | 1,588 | LuaFileSystem by hisham |
| 5 | 1,271 | lua-resty-http by pintsized |
| 6 | 1,018 | argparse by argparse |
| 7 | 940 | penlight by Tieske |
| 8 | 910 | LPeg by gvvaughan |
| 9 | 769 | LuaSec by lunarmodules |
| 10 | 765 | santoku-fs by broma0 |
| 11 | 714 | plenary.nvim by Conni2461 |
| 12 | 699 | dkjson by dhkolf |
| 13 | 613 | santoku-system by broma0 |
| 14 | 474 | lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags |
| 15 | 408 | luaposix by gvvaughan |
| 16 | 407 | santoku-template by broma0 |
| 17 | 402 | santoku-bundle by broma0 |
| 18 | 399 | santoku-sqlite by broma0 |
| 19 | 392 | nvim-nio by neotest |
| 20 | 385 | inspect by kikito |
| 21 | 361 | Copas by Tieske |
| 22 | 344 | bit32 by siffiejoe |
| 23 | 314 | busted by lunarmodules |
| 24 | 313 | ansicolors by kikito |
| 25 | 293 | lua-resty-cookie by utix |
| 26 | 291 | santoku-mustache by broma0 |
| 27 | 277 | lua-resty-openssl by fffonion |
| 28 | 275 | neotest by neotest |
| 29 | 259 | net-url by golgote |