How Eleventy is used
Eleventy joined the catalog on its public numbers (138,337 downloads a week on npm and 19,977 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 5 public GitHub projects of our scan, 5 of them set up for AI coding agents. The most used alternative in our scan is Astro (116 projects). Projects that use it most often also use esbuild (40.0%), Browsersync (20.0%), Chromatic (20.0%).
Eleventy popularity over time
Gid Score 42: downloads 46, use in agent projects 7, GitHub stars 62, downloads trend 60 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Eleventy
| esbuild | 40.0% of Eleventy projects · 8.6× more than average |
|---|---|
| Browsersync | 20.0% of Eleventy projects · 155.2× more than average |
| Chromatic | 20.0% of Eleventy projects · 41.4× more than average |
| Storybook | 20.0% of Eleventy projects · 9.9× more than average |
| Style Dictionary | 20.0% of Eleventy projects · 155.2× more than average |
| Color.js | 20.0% of Eleventy projects · 310.4× more than average |
| cross-env | 20.0% of Eleventy projects · 6.1× more than average |
| cssnano | 20.0% of Eleventy projects · 54.0× more than average |
How Eleventy is funded
Open Collective: Eleventy
| Received, last 12 months | $30,007 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $38,735 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $126,444 |
| Raised since the start | $221,901 · $95,457 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $2,548 · $2,938 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -27% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 327 |
Top company backers all time, 199 companies in total
| Nordhealth | $18,400 since Jun 2021 |
|---|---|
| Sanity | $16,800 since Jan 2020 |
| CloudCannon | $14,000 since Sep 2021 |
| Transloadit | $11,600 since Sep 2022 |
| Pintura | $6,300 since Jun 2021 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Apr 2019. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @11ty | 13 current sponsors |
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GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay.
Ways to fund Eleventy
GitHub Sponsors Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install @11ty/eleventy |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (5) |
| Example projects | friedbotstudio/baseline, co-cddo/cloudmaturity |
Alternatives to Eleventy
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Eleventy are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Astro npm Modern static site builder with partial hydration and zero JavaScript by default. |
72 | 116 (2.4%) | 4.8M | 63.3K | MIT |
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