Top depended upon modules
| Rank | Depended on count | Module |
| 1 | 1,873 | LuaSocket by lunarmodules |
| 2 | 1,853 | santoku by broma0 |
| 3 | 1,662 | lua-cjson by OpenResty |
| 4 | 1,566 | LuaFileSystem by hisham |
| 5 | 1,266 | lua-resty-http by pintsized |
| 6 | 1,001 | argparse by argparse |
| 7 | 929 | penlight by Tieske |
| 8 | 842 | LPeg by gvvaughan |
| 9 | 736 | santoku-fs by broma0 |
| 10 | 721 | LuaSec by lunarmodules |
| 11 | 683 | plenary.nvim by Conni2461 |
| 12 | 680 | 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 | 384 | inspect by kikito |
| 19 | 381 | luaposix by gvvaughan |
| 20 | 372 | nvim-nio by neotest |
| 21 | 342 | bit32 by siffiejoe |
| 22 | 339 | Copas by Tieske |
| 23 | 305 | ansicolors by kikito |
| 24 | 297 | busted by lunarmodules |
| 25 | 292 | lua-resty-cookie by utix |
| 26 | 283 | santoku-mustache by broma0 |
| 27 | 271 | lua-resty-openssl by fffonion |
| 28 | 258 | neotest by neotest |
| 29 | 254 | lyaml by gvvaughan |