Top depended upon modules
| Rank | Depended on count | Module |
| 1 | 2,750 | santoku by birchpointswe |
| 2 | 2,169 | LuaSocket by lunarmodules |
| 3 | 2,143 | lua-cjson by OpenResty |
| 4 | 1,672 | LuaFileSystem by hisham |
| 5 | 1,353 | lua-resty-http by pintsized |
| 6 | 1,169 | argparse by argparse |
| 7 | 1,120 | santoku-fs by birchpointswe |
| 8 | 1,028 | plenary.nvim by Conni2461 |
| 9 | 1,024 | LPeg by gvvaughan |
| 10 | 984 | penlight by Tieske |
| 11 | 876 | LuaSec by lunarmodules |
| 12 | 869 | santoku-system by birchpointswe |
| 13 | 777 | dkjson by dhkolf |
| 14 | 609 | santoku-template by birchpointswe |
| 15 | 604 | santoku-bundle by birchpointswe |
| 16 | 546 | santoku-mustache by birchpointswe |
| 17 | 497 | lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags |
| 18 | 446 | luaposix by gvvaughan |
| 19 | 440 | nvim-nio by neotest |
| 20 | 408 | santoku-sqlite by birchpointswe |
| 21 | 397 | Copas by Tieske |
| 22 | 391 | inspect by kikito |
| 23 | 371 | santoku-matrix by birchpointswe |
| 24 | 352 | bit32 by siffiejoe |
| 25 | 333 | busted by lunarmodules |
| 26 | 321 | ansicolors by kikito |
| 27 | 319 | neotest by neotest |
| 28 | 311 | lua-resty-openssl by fffonion |