Last month, Bun crossed 50 million monthly downloads
Line chart titled "51.4M Monthly Bun downloads." Downloads grow from 7.2M in October 2025 to 51.4M in October 2026, climbing fastest in the last few months. Four events are marked: Bun 1.3 in October 2025, Joined Anthropic in December, Rust rewrite in May, and Bun 1.4 in August. A label reads "+57% since 1.4."

ALT Line chart titled "51.4M Monthly Bun downloads." Downloads grow from 7.2M in October 2025 to 51.4M in October 2026, climbing fastest in the last few months. Four events are marked: Bun 1.3 in October 2025, Joined Anthropic in December, Rust rewrite in May, and Bun 1.4 in August. A label reads "+57% since 1.4."

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this excludes single file binaries that use Bun

Nov 6, 2026 · 7:25 AM UTC

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and the 1.5?
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What about cloud workers? Antrophic is probably spawning hundreds of containers per minute on their review pipeline workers, which all install bun.
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