How Cucumber.js is used
Cucumber.js joined the catalog on its public numbers (1,092,983 downloads a week on npm and 5,401 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 19 public GitHub projects of our scan, 15 of them set up for AI coding agents. Projects that use it most often also use Playwright (JavaScript) (73.7%), ts-node (42.1%), cross-env (21.1%).
Cucumber.js popularity over time
Gid Score 47: downloads 65, use in agent projects 27, GitHub stars 40, downloads trend 50 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Cucumber.js
| Playwright (JavaScript) | 73.7% of Cucumber.js projects · 4.3× more than average |
|---|---|
| ts-node | 42.1% of Cucumber.js projects · 8.8× more than average |
| cross-env | 21.1% of Cucumber.js projects · 6.4× more than average |
| Allure Playwright | 21.1% of Cucumber.js projects · 56.8× more than average |
| playwright-bdd | 15.8% of Cucumber.js projects · 163.4× more than average |
| Winston | 15.8% of Cucumber.js projects · 17.5× more than average |
| Chai | 15.8% of Cucumber.js projects · 49.0× more than average |
| dotenv | 26.3% of Cucumber.js projects · 1.7× more than average |
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
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Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Cucumber.js as a dependency.
How Cucumber.js is funded
Open Collective: Cucumber
| Received, last 12 months | $14,920 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $18,985 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $1,196 |
| Raised since the start | $95,454 · $94,258 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $718 · $718 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | +18% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 19 |
Top company backers all time, 53 companies in total
| SmartBear | $39,500 since Oct 2021 |
|---|---|
| Principal Financial Group | $8,616 since Dec 2018 |
| CodeFirst | $2,000 since Jan 2019 |
| EthicalAds | $1,951 since Jul 2025 |
| Icons8 | $1,700 since Aug 2019 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Jun 2017. 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
| @cucumber | 2 current sponsors |
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GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay.
Ways to fund Cucumber.js
GitHub Sponsors Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install @cucumber/cucumber |
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| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (18), React Native / Expo (1) |
| Example projects | openqa-labs/openqa |
Alternatives to Cucumber.js
In our scan, none of the most used tools in Testing does the same job as Cucumber.js: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
More in Testing: Vitest Playwright (JavaScript) Testing Library jsdom Jest pytest Happy DOM axe-core Playwright