How Elysia is used
Elysia is a dependency in 5 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 20 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is Express (421 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Zod (65.0%), TypeScript (95.0%), Biome (35.0%).
Elysia popularity over time
Gid Score 55: downloads 64, use in agent projects 28, GitHub stars 61, downloads trend 72 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Elysia
| Zod | 65.0% of Elysia projects · 2.6× more than average |
|---|---|
| TypeScript | 95.0% of Elysia projects · 1.7× more than average |
| Biome | 35.0% of Elysia projects · 6.2× more than average |
| Elysia CORS | 35.0% of Elysia projects · 2172.8× more than average |
| Elysia Eden | 30.0% of Elysia projects · 931.2× more than average |
| AI SDK | 30.0% of Elysia projects · 6.8× more than average |
| date-fns | 35.0% of Elysia projects · 3.4× more than average |
| Elysia Swagger | 25.0% of Elysia projects · 1552.0× more than average |
From all 20 projects in our scan that use Elysia, including the dependency samples.
How Elysia is funded
GitHub Sponsors
| @SaltyAom | 82 current sponsors |
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GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay. Sponsors of a person back all of their work, which here includes Elysia Eden, Elysia CORS.
Ways to fund Elysia
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install elysia |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (14), Next.js (4), Python (1), React Native / Expo (1) |
| Example projects | inboundemail/inbound, odefun/ode, Atiqullah-Naemi/forgeai, zAlweNy26/ts-cat, liukailun007/PLC-Studio |
Alternatives to Elysia
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Elysia are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Express npm Fast, unopinionated minimalist web framework for Node.js. |
87 | 421 (8.7%) | 87.4M | 69.6K | MIT |
| Hono npm Ultrafast web framework for edge runtimes built on Web Standards. |
78 | 107 (2.2%) | 45.2M | 32.6K | MIT |
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