KiCad

Not unusually. KiCad's measures are moving with or below their peers; the strongest is developer tools, 1.13× in 30 days (43.6k to 49.2k downloads in 30 days).

Developer tools: 1.13× in 30 days (43.6k to 49.2k downloads in 30 days). In the news: 1.00× in 14 days (126 to 126 points in 12 months). Web reach: 1.09× in 14 days (#70.7k to #65.1k rank among all websites).

On developer tools it ranks #919 of 2,320 companies with packages by growth over 30 days, faster than 60% of companies with packages. On in the news it ranks #285 of 406 organizations in the news by growth over 14 days, slower than most organizations in the news. On web reach it ranks #678 of 5,132 company websites by growth over 14 days, climbing faster than 86% of company websites.

Beside KiCad, the fastest growers on developer tools are sfepy.org (70×), Notra (65×), hanzo.ai (41×) and ScrapeOps (35×).

Vela Breakout counts public usage every day: AI tokens, package downloads, installs, open roles, software spend and web reach. Each figure is measured, not estimated, and dated; this page is as of Oct 19, 2026.