vite vs webpack
Build tools · npm download comparison · data as of 17 October 2026
vite is downloaded about 3.5× as often as webpack — 195,261,248 versus 56,233,661 downloads in the last 7 days.
Over the last 90 days, vite downloads changed +32.9% and webpack +16.4% compared with the 90 days before, so vite is growing faster.
● vite● webpackweekly downloads, last 12 months
Log scale — each grid line is 10× the one below, so both packages stay readable.
| vite | webpack | |
|---|---|---|
| Weekly downloads | 195,261,248 | 56,233,661 |
| Monthly downloads | 855,229,675 | 255,856,628 |
| Downloads, last 12 months | 5,303,885,529 | 2,265,090,308 |
| 90-day growth | +32.9% | +16.4% |
| Latest version | 8.3.4 | 5.112.0 |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Direct dependencies | 5 | 17 |
| Description | Native-ESM powered web dev build tool | Packs ECMAScript/CommonJs/AMD modules for the browser. Allows you to split your codebase into multiple bundles, which can be loaded on demand. Supports loaders to preprocess files, i.e. json, jsx, es7, css, less, ... and |
Download counts come from the public npm registry API and include CI and mirror traffic, so treat them as a popularity signal, not a user count.