Busiest servers right now
all servers- 1 2,137/ 2100
- 2 1,612+43/ 1700
- 3 1,077/ 1900
- 4 1,005/ 1050
- 5 986/ 950
- 6 947/ 950
- 7 828+30/ 850
- 8 821/ 800
- 9 787+47/ 750
- 10 771/ 875
Live · players across Rust
Rust player count
92,434
players on 11,804 public Rust servers right now, and 807 more waiting in queues
Last updated · 6m ago · a new count every few minutes
98,991
peak, last 24 hours
at 18:00 UTC
33,256
low, last 24 hours
at 05:00 UTC
-2.9%
vs this hour yesterday
hourly averages compared
17:00
busiest hour, UTC
97,734 on average; quietest 05:00
3,970
servers with players on
of 11,804 online
145,095
highest daily peak
on 3 Oct, since 11 Jun
Here is everyone on a public Rust server right now: 92,434 players, 11,804 servers, 807 waiting in queue. Each server reports every five minutes, so the line moves as you watch. Below it, the last day and the last months. Then the split: game mode, modded or not, group size, gather rate, region and how fresh the wipe is. A few servers hold most of the players, and the chart shows how few.
Three screens · UTC
The chart wall
Everyone on a public Rust server, three ways: the last two days hour by hour, every day since the history starts, and the shape of an average day.
Players across Rust · last 48 hours
hourly average · UTCPlayers across Rust · every day since 11 June
daily averageBefore 12 September the history is BattleMetrics' count; from then on it is Rust Charts's own, leaving out the servers on the banlist.
When Rust is busiest
average over the last week · UTCThe brightest bar is the busiest hour of the day.
Split 01
Rust's in-game Official tab against everything elseOfficial or not
Official servers are the ones in Rust's in-game Official tab: Facepunch's own and its partners', such as RustSpain. Rust Charts keeps that list by hand, by hostname and address. Everything else is a community or modded server.
Splits
How the players split
Every server online is counted once in each breakdown, so each one adds up to the 92,434 players on 11,804 servers.
Split 02
rates, rules and pluginsModded or not
Oxide runs on 7,487 servers with 55,309 players, Carbon on 1,893 with 16,880. 2,664 servers with 46,025 players call themselves vanilla.
Split 03
what each server is forBy game mode
Premium-only servers (297, with 1,853 players) are counted in their mode: premium decides who may join, not how the game plays.
Split 04
where the server says it isBy region
Split 05
read from the server's nameBy gather rate
Split 06
the team limit servers publishBy group size
Split 07
how fresh the map isBy last wipe
Split 08
what servers publishBy wipe schedule
Split 09
players on each server nowBy server size
12%
on the 10 busiest
49%
on the 100 busiest
106
servers hold half
Side B · questions
Questions
How many people are playing Rust right now?
The figure at the top of this page is 92,434, counted from what public servers report every five minutes and refreshed on the same cycle. It rises and falls with the time of day, so check the line above before you read much into one number. Last updated 27 Oct 2026, 16:15 UTC.
Why is this lower than the number on Steam?
Steam counts anyone with Rust open, including people in menus, on loading screens and on servers that do not list themselves. This page only counts players on public servers. That limit is also what lets the charts split players by mode, region and wipe age.
When are the most players online?
In the European evening. The chart by hour of day averages the last week in UTC, and the busiest hour usually carries more than twice the players of the quietest. Evening in Australia lands in the UK morning; evening on the US east coast lands after midnight in the UK. The day's 98,991 is marked on the line.
Are more players on modded or vanilla servers?
Modded holds more players in total, mostly because there are many more modded servers. The split chart is live and shifts as servers report. For the vanilla side alone, the ranked lists are a place to start.