pnpm
Fast, disk space efficient package manager
npm says
314,760,274 / week
Every tarball fetch: mirrors, scanners, CI and people.
probably humans
≈ 314,722,092–314,760,274 / week
best guess 314,757,575 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 pnpm?
npm counted 314,760,274 downloads of pnpm 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 314,757,575 of them (likely range 314,722,092–314,760,274) were real human installs, with high confidence. That puts less than 1% of npm's weekly count down to robots.
Is pnpm still maintained?
Most likely yes, going by its releases. The latest version, 12.16.1, came out on Oct 27, 2026. The last 12 months saw 130 stable releases, typically 2 days apart, plus 77 pre-releases. It was first published on Mar 8, 2013. npm lists 2 maintainers.
Is pnpm still used?
Downloads with publish spikes removed are up 99% over 3 months and up 689% over 11 months. Last week, 35% of downloads above the crawler floor were on major version 11, not the latest one; the most used single version was 11.19.0, with 9%. Weekdays get 1.4× the downloads of weekends, which fits people at work, though CI follows the same rhythm. Crawlers account for about 2,718 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 an honest confidence level.