Top depended upon modules
| Rank | Depended on count | Module |
| 1 | 1,918 | LuaSocket by lunarmodules |
| 2 | 1,915 | santoku by broma0 |
| 3 | 1,716 | lua-cjson by OpenResty |
| 4 | 1,582 | LuaFileSystem by hisham |
| 5 | 1,270 | lua-resty-http by pintsized |
| 6 | 1,009 | argparse by argparse |
| 7 | 937 | penlight by Tieske |
| 8 | 856 | LPeg by gvvaughan |
| 9 | 743 | LuaSec by lunarmodules |
| 10 | 736 | santoku-fs by broma0 |
| 11 | 702 | plenary.nvim by Conni2461 |
| 12 | 691 | dkjson by dhkolf |
| 13 | 605 | santoku-system by broma0 |
| 14 | 471 | lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags |
| 15 | 399 | santoku-sqlite by broma0 |
| 16 | 399 | santoku-template by broma0 |
| 17 | 394 | santoku-bundle by broma0 |
| 18 | 392 | luaposix by gvvaughan |
| 19 | 386 | nvim-nio by neotest |
| 20 | 385 | inspect by kikito |
| 21 | 352 | Copas by Tieske |
| 22 | 343 | bit32 by siffiejoe |
| 23 | 309 | ansicolors by kikito |
| 24 | 300 | busted by lunarmodules |
| 25 | 293 | lua-resty-cookie by utix |
| 26 | 283 | santoku-mustache by broma0 |
| 27 | 273 | lua-resty-openssl by fffonion |
| 28 | 267 | neotest by neotest |