Top depended upon modules
| Rank | Depended on count | Module |
| 1 | 1,665 | LuaSocket by lunarmodules |
| 2 | 1,328 | LuaFileSystem by hisham |
| 3 | 1,241 | lua-cjson by OpenResty |
| 4 | 1,184 | lua-resty-http by pintsized |
| 5 | 889 | penlight by Tieske |
| 6 | 765 | santoku by broma0 |
| 7 | 750 | LPeg by gvvaughan |
| 8 | 690 | argparse by argparse |
| 9 | 654 | LuaSec by lunarmodules |
| 10 | 606 | dkjson by dhkolf |
| 11 | 446 | lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags |
| 12 | 411 | santoku-fs by broma0 |
| 13 | 362 | plenary.nvim by Conni2461 |
| 14 | 359 | luaposix by gvvaughan |
| 15 | 347 | inspect by kikito |
| 16 | 291 | ansicolors by kikito |
| 17 | 276 | lua-resty-cookie by utix |
| 18 | 274 | santoku-system by broma0 |
| 19 | 249 | busted by lunarmodules |
| 20 | 246 | lyaml by gvvaughan |
| 21 | 245 | MD5 by tomasguisasola |
| 22 | 238 | nvim-nio by neotest |
| 23 | 235 | LuaCrypto by starius |
| 24 | 229 | date by Tieske |
| 25 | 228 | lua-resty-openidc by hans.zandbelt |
| 26 | 215 | net-url by golgote |
| 27 | 213 | lua-resty-openssl by fffonion |
| 28 | 211 | lua-resty-jit-uuid by thibaultcha |
| 29 | 203 | lua_cliargs by lunarmodules |