Package
ethers
A complete and compact Ethereum library, for dapps, wallets and any other tools.
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 2.8m
- +51% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 7
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 3 months ago
- v6.17.0
- GitHub stars
- 8.7k
- 2.1k forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 456 / 210
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 42
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
2,849,571 downloads last week, 13,907,678 in the last month. The 12-month change of +51% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 2216 in total
- Latest version
- 6.17.0, 18 Jun 20263 months ago
- First published
- 5 Apr 2017
- Last push to GitHub
- 18 Jun 202699 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 456
- Open pull requests
- 210
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 42
- Dependents on npm
- 16,897
Major versions
- v6 first release 6.0.0, 3 Feb 2023
- v5 first release 5.0.0, 13 Jun 2020
- v4 first release 4.0.0, 28 Sept 2018
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 5 Mar 2018
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 5 Apr 2017
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 6.17.0 | 18 Jun 2026 |
| 6.16.0 | 3 Dec 2025 |
| 6.15.0 | 2 Jul 2025 |
| 6.14.4 | 13 Jun 2025 |
| 6.14.3 | 27 May 2025 |
| 6.14.2 | 26 May 2025 |
| 6.14.1 | 15 May 2025 |
| 6.14.0 | 7 May 2025 |
| 6.13.7 | 26 Apr 2025 |
| 6.13.6 | 21 Mar 2025 |
| 5.8.0 | 26 Feb 2025 |
| 6.13.5 | 6 Jan 2025 |
| 6.13.4 | 12 Oct 2024 |
| 6.13.3 | 1 Oct 2024 |
- Module format
- ESM + CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- >=14.0.0
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 12.4 MB
- Dependencies (7)
wstslibaes-js@types/node@noble/curves@noble/hashes@adraffy/ens-normalize
npm install ethersCDN
jsDelivr: 18.2m requests in 30 days
- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/ethers@6.17.0/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/ethers@6.17.0/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/ethers@6.17.0
| Package | Weekly downloads | Gzip | Last release | Module | Comparison |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| @ethereumjs/util | 1.8m | - | 1 month ago | ESM + CommonJS | - |
| ethereumjs-util | 1.7m | - | 4 years ago | CommonJS | - |
| web3 | 590.1k | - | 1 year ago | ESM + CommonJS | - |
| @nomicfoundation/ethereumjs-util | 79.1k | - | 2 years ago | ESM + CommonJS | - |
| @ethereumjs/rlp | 2m | - | 1 month ago | ESM + CommonJS | - |
| rlp | 888.8k | - | 4 years ago | CommonJS | - |
| @ethereumjs/block | 102.3k | - | 1 month ago | ESM + CommonJS | - |
| @nomicfoundation/ethereumjs-tx | 81.4k | - | 2 years ago | ESM + CommonJS | - |
Indexability: Indexed.