Top depended upon modules
| Rank | Depended on count | Module |
| 1 | 2,125 | santoku by broma0 |
| 2 | 1,979 | LuaSocket by lunarmodules |
| 3 | 1,862 | lua-cjson by OpenResty |
| 4 | 1,609 | LuaFileSystem by hisham |
| 5 | 1,282 | lua-resty-http by pintsized |
| 6 | 1,036 | argparse by argparse |
| 7 | 979 | LPeg by gvvaughan |
| 8 | 951 | penlight by Tieske |
| 9 | 829 | santoku-fs by broma0 |
| 10 | 801 | plenary.nvim by Conni2461 |
| 11 | 777 | LuaSec by lunarmodules |
| 12 | 708 | dkjson by dhkolf |
| 13 | 645 | santoku-system by broma0 |
| 14 | 476 | lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags |
| 15 | 431 | santoku-template by broma0 |
| 16 | 426 | santoku-bundle by broma0 |
| 17 | 413 | nvim-nio by neotest |
| 18 | 413 | luaposix by gvvaughan |
| 19 | 408 | santoku-sqlite by broma0 |
| 20 | 385 | inspect by kikito |
| 21 | 362 | Copas by Tieske |
| 22 | 351 | santoku-mustache by broma0 |
| 23 | 345 | bit32 by siffiejoe |
| 24 | 321 | busted by lunarmodules |
| 25 | 316 | ansicolors by kikito |
| 26 | 293 | lua-resty-cookie by utix |
| 27 | 290 | santoku-matrix by broma0 |
| 28 | 289 | neotest by neotest |