kysely
Type safe SQL query builder
npm says
28,540,928
per week
Every tarball fetch: mirrors, scanners, CI and people.
real installs
high confidence≈ 28.5M
per week
Mirror spikes and crawlers removed. CI and dependency installs still count, so this is not a head count.
noise under 1% of npm's count, so nearly all of it counts. noise real installs
Why this estimate
With JavaScript on, this lists what the filter found for this package.
Snapshot from the daily build of Nov 6, 2026, last 7 days of npm data. With JavaScript on, this page recomputes it live from the npm API.
How many people use kysely?
npm counted 28,540,928 downloads of kysely in the last 7 days. Nobody can count people exactly, npm included: it does not record who downloaded what. After removing mirror spikes and crawlers, about 28.5M look like real installs. At this scale most of them come from CI, builds and other packages that depend on kysely, so the number of people behind them is far smaller.
Is kysely still maintained?
Most likely yes, going by its releases. The latest version, 0.29.8, came out on Nov 1, 2026. The last 12 months saw 20 stable releases, typically 13 days apart, plus 4 pre-releases. It was first published on Feb 18, 2021. npm lists 2 maintainers.
Is kysely still used?
Downloads with publish spikes removed are up 111% over 3 months and up 1,774% over 11 months. For scale, the median of the 269 packages we track, which lean towards today's most downloaded, is up 157% over 11 months, so this one is ahead of that. Last week, 100% of downloads above the crawler floor were on major version 0, the latest one; the most used single version was 0.28.17, with 20%. Weekdays get 1.11× the downloads of weekends, so there is no clear work-week rhythm. Crawlers account for about 386 downloads a week, roughly 2 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 a confidence level. It still includes CI and dependency installs, so it is not a count of people.