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Rust crates · category · data Oct 24, 2026
Windows APIs crates by real downloads
crates.io describes this category as: “Bindings to Windows-specific APIs.” Below are the 13 crates in it among the 300 most-downloaded crates, ranked by real downloads (quiet-day baseline) instead of raw count.
Short answerBy steady daily use, windows-sys leads Windows APIs with 5,600,925 real downloads a day (widely used and steady). 2 of the 13 have 1,000+ dependents; 1 have shipped nothing in 2+ years. Release spikes barely matter here: the median crate got 0.0% of its downloads within 2 days of a release.
13 crates
| Compare | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| windows-sysWidely used | 5,600,925 | 2,852 | 13mo | -6% | 1.8B | |
| windows_x86_64_msvcPulled in | 3,254,949 | 1 | 13mo | -9% | 1.2B | |
| windows-targetsPulled in | 3,201,702 | 14 | 13mo | -9% | 1.2B | |
| windows_x86_64_gnuPulled in | 3,139,346 | 1 | 13mo | -9% | 1.2B | |
| windows_aarch64_msvcPulled in | 3,126,614 | 1 | 13mo | -10% | 1.2B | |
| windows_i686_msvcPulled in | 3,118,288 | 1 | 13mo | -10% | 1.2B | |
| windows_i686_gnuPulled in | 3,115,756 | 1 | 13mo | -10% | 1.2B | |
| windows_aarch64_gnullvmPulled in | 3,061,583 | 1 | 13mo | -10% | 1.1B | |
| windows_x86_64_gnullvmPulled in | 3,058,615 | 1 | 13mo | -10% | 1.1B | |
| windows-linkPulled in | 2,145,228 | 50 | 51d | -1% | 509M | |
| windows_i686_gnullvmPulled in | 2,125,473 | 1 | 13mo | -7% | 645M | |
| windows-coreEstablished | 1,549,848 | 224 | 51d | +6% | 496M | |
| winapiWidely used | 1,251,224 | 1,603 | 6.3y | -2% | 545M |
Click a column to sort; press + to add a crate to a comparison. Real / day = median downloads on days with no release that day or the day before. Each crate's page shows its verdict and the 4 rules behind it. Why this method · this category on crates.io