Top depended upon modules
| Rank | Depended on count | Module |
| 1 | 1,715 | LuaSocket by lunarmodules |
| 2 | 1,363 | LuaFileSystem by hisham |
| 3 | 1,363 | lua-cjson by OpenResty |
| 4 | 1,211 | lua-resty-http by pintsized |
| 5 | 1,009 | santoku by broma0 |
| 6 | 901 | penlight by Tieske |
| 7 | 777 | argparse by argparse |
| 8 | 765 | LPeg by gvvaughan |
| 9 | 682 | LuaSec by lunarmodules |
| 10 | 618 | dkjson by dhkolf |
| 11 | 552 | santoku-fs by broma0 |
| 12 | 462 | plenary.nvim by Conni2461 |
| 13 | 447 | lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags |
| 14 | 360 | luaposix by gvvaughan |
| 15 | 353 | inspect by kikito |
| 16 | 332 | santoku-system by broma0 |
| 17 | 296 | ansicolors by kikito |
| 18 | 280 | bit32 by siffiejoe |
| 19 | 280 | Copas by Tieske |
| 20 | 279 | lua-resty-cookie by utix |
| 21 | 264 | nvim-nio by neotest |
| 22 | 253 | busted by lunarmodules |
| 23 | 246 | lyaml by gvvaughan |
| 24 | 246 | MD5 by tomasguisasola |
| 25 | 239 | lua-resty-openssl by fffonion |
| 26 | 237 | santoku-template by broma0 |
| 27 | 235 | LuaCrypto by starius |
| 28 | 232 | santoku-bundle by broma0 |
| 29 | 229 | date by Tieske |