We believe transparency is important to build a trustworthy open-source community, so we regularly share our usage and sustainability statistics.
Below are some statistics we found interesting (in parentheses, you can see the figures for the previous month). If you are interested in any other figures, please let us know.
Detailed Statistics for October 2025
Usage
- Website & Docs visitors: 9.2K (10K)
- Website & Docs page views: 49K (55K)
- Top 5 Docs pages: Quickstart, Docs Home, Gherkin reference, SpecFlow Migration, IDE Setup (Docs Home, Quickstart, SpecFlow Migration, Gherkin reference, IDE Setup)
- NuGet package downloads (Reqnroll package, last 6 weeks): 1.83M (1.7M)
- NuGet package downloads compared to SpecFlow NuGet downloads (based on “per day average”): 77% (71%)
- Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by VS2022 extension: 407K (404K)
- Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by Rider extension: 8.3K (10K)
- Upgrades to the latest VS2022 extension: 8.7K (May: 7.6K)
- Installations of VS2022 extension (all versions, without upgrades): 76.4K (N/A)
- Top 3 countries (from VS2022 extension usage): USA, India, United Kingdom (India, USA, United Kingdom)
- Reqnroll projects (.NET projects executed by Reqnroll): 23K (22K)
- Reqnroll test executions: 12.5M (11.4M)
- Reqnroll test executions per project per month: avg: 538, median: 56 (avg: 515, median: 53)
- Ratio of CI/CD executions: 45% (45%)
.NET Framework Usage
The list shows the .NET Framework usage distribution of Reqnroll projects.
- .NET 8.0: 69% (68%)
- .NET 9.0: 17% (17%)
- .NET 4.8: 9% (9%)
- .NET 6.0: 3% (4%)
- .NET 10.0 RC/Preview: 1% (0.2%)
- .NET 7.0: 1% (1%)
Only frameworks with usage above 1% are shown.
Test Execution Framework Usage
The list shows the test execution framework usage distribution of Reqnroll projects.
- NUnit: 45% (45%)
- xUnit: 30% (30%)
- MsTest: 24% (24%)
- xUnit v3: 0.8% (0.1%)
- TUnit: 0.3% (0.3%)
CI/CD Server Usage
The list shows the CI/CD server usage distribution of Reqnroll projects that were executed in CI.
- Azure Pipelines: 66% (66%)
- GitHub Actions: 10% (10%)
- Jenkins: 7% (7%)
- GitLab CI/CD: 5% (6%)
- TeamCity: 4% (4%)
- GitLab CI: 3% (2%)
- Atlassian Bamboo: 2% (2%)
- BrowserStack: 1% (1%)
- Bitbucket Pipelines: 1% (1%)
- Octopus Deploy: 1% (1%)
Formatters
The new reporting infrastructure (called formatters) has been introduced with the v3 release.
- HTML reports generated: 105.4K / 554 projects (61.7K / 452)
- Message reports generated: 22.9K / 155 projects (17.2K / 124)
- Expressium reports generated: 2.4K / 31 projects (0.6K / 15)
- Ratio of projects used formatters: 3.2% (2.7%)
Sustainability
- Active paid subscriptions: 3 (3)
- Sponsors: Gold: 1 (Spec Solutions), Silver: 2 (Info Support, LambdaTest), Supporters: 4 (1/2/4)
- Yearly budget: ~$2800 ($2800)
- My time: 21hrs (48hrs)
📢 I encourage everyone to invite contributors for a coffee 🍵. That could help pay our hosting bills or even enable us to organize an in-person design workshop to better align our goals (and drink those coffees, of course. Maybe a beer 🍺 too…). Become a sponsor.