zod vs valibot
Validation · npm download comparison · data as of 17 October 2026
zod is downloaded about 15× as often as valibot — 346,947,379 versus 22,500,645 downloads in the last 7 days.
Over the last 90 days, zod downloads changed +49.1% and valibot +60.9% compared with the 90 days before, so valibot is growing faster.
● zod● valibotweekly downloads, last 12 months
Log scale — each grid line is 10× the one below, so both packages stay readable.
| zod | valibot | |
|---|---|---|
| Weekly downloads | 346,947,379 | 22,500,645 |
| Monthly downloads | 1,431,684,297 | 93,451,573 |
| Downloads, last 12 months | 8,100,099,355 | 508,263,733 |
| 90-day growth | +49.1% | +60.9% |
| Latest version | 4.6.7 | 1.5.0 |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Direct dependencies | 0 | 0 |
| Description | TypeScript-first schema declaration and validation library with static type inference | The modular and type safe schema library for validating structural data |
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.