Top depended upon modules
| Rank | Depended on count | Module |
| 1 | 2,815 | santoku by birchpointswe |
| 2 | 2,183 | LuaSocket by lunarmodules |
| 3 | 2,175 | lua-cjson by OpenResty |
| 4 | 1,701 | LuaFileSystem by hisham |
| 5 | 1,358 | lua-resty-http by pintsized |
| 6 | 1,184 | argparse by argparse |
| 7 | 1,148 | santoku-fs by birchpointswe |
| 8 | 1,043 | LPeg by gvvaughan |
| 9 | 1,031 | plenary.nvim by Conni2461 |
| 10 | 989 | penlight by Tieske |
| 11 | 885 | santoku-system by birchpointswe |
| 12 | 881 | LuaSec by lunarmodules |
| 13 | 806 | dkjson by dhkolf |
| 14 | 620 | santoku-template by birchpointswe |
| 15 | 615 | santoku-bundle by birchpointswe |
| 16 | 563 | santoku-mustache by birchpointswe |
| 17 | 498 | lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags |
| 18 | 446 | luaposix by gvvaughan |
| 19 | 440 | nvim-nio by neotest |
| 20 | 409 | santoku-sqlite by birchpointswe |
| 21 | 397 | Copas by Tieske |
| 22 | 395 | santoku-matrix by birchpointswe |
| 23 | 392 | inspect by kikito |
| 24 | 353 | bit32 by siffiejoe |
| 25 | 333 | busted by lunarmodules |
| 26 | 322 | ansicolors by kikito |
| 27 | 319 | neotest by neotest |
| 28 | 313 | lua-resty-openssl by fffonion |