axios
Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js
npm says
144,622,010 / week
Every tarball fetch: mirrors, scanners, CI and people.
probably humans
≈ 128,356,424–128,740,926 / week
best guess 128,725,503 high confidence
Snapshot from the daily build of Nov 4, 2026, last 7 days of npm data. With JavaScript on, this page recomputes it live from the npm API.
How many people actually use axios?
npm counted 144,622,010 downloads of axios in the last 7 days. That count includes every tarball fetch: registry mirrors, security scanners, CI pipelines and crawlers as well as people. humanloads estimates that about 128,725,503 of them (likely range 128,356,424–128,740,926) were real human installs, with high confidence. That puts 11% of npm's weekly count down to robots.
Is axios still maintained?
Most likely yes, going by its releases. The latest version, 1.21.0, came out on Oct 27, 2026. The last 12 months saw 26 stable releases, typically 10 days apart. It was first published on Aug 29, 2014. npm lists 1 maintainer.
Is axios still used?
Downloads with publish spikes removed are up 12% over 3 months and up 79% over 11 months. Last week, 88% of downloads above the crawler floor were on major version 1, the latest one; the most used single version was 1.20.0, with 32%. Weekdays get 1.8× the downloads of weekends, which fits people at work, though CI follows the same rhythm. Over the last 12 months, 15,881,084 downloads arrived in publish spikes and were attributed to mirrors. Crawlers account for about 15,758 downloads a week, roughly 107 per version.
How the estimate works
- Cut the spike every new version gets from mirrors in its first days.
- Subtract the flat floor robots download from every version each week.
- Show what is left as a range, with an honest confidence level.