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express vs koa

Estimated humans, week by week

  • express
  • koa
  • npm downloads (same color, dashed)

The 12-month chart is drawn in the browser from the npm API.

express vs koa: which is more popular?

packagenpm / weekhumans / week inflationconfidence
express 194,304,902 194,267,958–194,304,902 less than 1% high
koa 9,689,953 9,681,957–9,689,953 less than 1% high

Snapshot from the daily build of Nov 3, 2026, last 7 days of npm data. With JavaScript on, this page recomputes it live with a 12-month chart.

By estimated real human installs, express is ahead of koa by about 20×: about 194,295,837 vs 9,688,183 a week. npm's raw counts are 194,304,902 for express and 9,689,953 for koa, which include mirrors, scanners and crawlers.

How the estimate works

  1. Cut the spike every new version gets from mirrors in its first days.
  2. Subtract the flat floor robots download from every version each week.
  3. Show what is left as a range, with an honest confidence level.

Read the methodology