Experiment write-up · the live player count
Rust player count, measured live
Live Last updated · 12m ago · a new count every few minutes
players on 11,825 public Rust servers right now, and 706 more waiting in queues
Readings of the last day
Assay AOfficial or not
Rust's in-game Official tab against everything elseOfficial servers are the ones in Rust's in-game Official tab: Facepunch's own and its partners', such as RustSpain. Rust Data Lab keeps that list by hand, by hostname and address. Everything else is a community or modded server.
The question is simple: how many people are playing Rust right now? The data answers with 95,504 players across 11,825 public servers, refreshed every five minutes. Below that live figure you can compare the last day and the last months, and see how those players divide by game mode, modded or not, group size, gather rate, region and wipe day. A small number of servers hold most of them; the table of the largest samples shows how few. This page measures what public servers report, not what Steam counts.
The experiments
Players across Rust · last 48 hours
Players across Rust · every day since 11 June
Before 12 September the history is BattleMetrics' count; from then on it is Rust Data Lab's own, leaving out the servers on the banlist.
How the players split
Every server online is counted once in each breakdown, so each one adds up to the 95,504 players on 11,825 servers.
Assay BModded or not
rates, rules and pluginsOxide runs on 7,486 servers with 57,628 players, Carbon on 1,905 with 17,218. 2,666 servers with 47,690 players call themselves vanilla.
Assay CBy game mode
what each server is forPremium-only servers (296, with 1,922 players) are counted in their mode: premium decides who may join, not how the game plays.
Assay DBy region
where the server says it isAssay EBy gather rate
read from the server's nameAssay FBy group size
the team limit servers publishAssay GBy last wipe
how fresh the map isAssay HBy wipe schedule
what servers publishAssay IBy server size
players on each server nowWhen Rust is busiest
Busiest servers right now
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1
Eu
EU | Helli's A…
2,227
EU | Helli's Aimtrain | Facechecks/1v1/Ranked/Hellis 2,227/ 2,150
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2
Mi
MIRAGE RUST | …
1,589
MIRAGE RUST | TUESDAY 2x | VANILLA+ | Wipe 27.10 1,589/ 1,700
- 3 Ru RustReborn.gg … 1,141
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4
Mi
MIRAGE RUST | …
1,083
MIRAGE RUST | MONDAY 2x | VANILLA+ | Wipe 26.10 1,083/ 1,900
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5
At
Atlas - EU 2X …
1,008
Atlas - EU 2X Monthly | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes 1,008/ 1,050
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6
At
Atlas - EU 3x …
975
Atlas - EU 3x | No BPs | Mondays 975+11/ 1,000
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7
Ru
Rusty Moose |E…
816
Rusty Moose |EU Mondays| 816+15/ 850
- 8 At Atlas - EU 2X … 786
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9
Su
SURVIVORS.GG #…
785
SURVIVORS.GG #2 [ 2x Vanilla ] WIPED 27.10 785+35/ 800
- 10 Vi Vital Rust - E… 784
Questions
How many people are playing Rust right now?
The live figure is 95,504 players on 11,825 public servers, updated every five minutes. That number moves through the day, so the last-day chart shows the shape rather than a single reading. The peak today is 98,991.
Why does this differ from Steam's player count?
Steam counts everyone with the game open, including menus and servers that do not list publicly. This page samples public Rust servers only, so it can split the players by server type and region. The gap is usually the hidden and menu time.
When is Rust busiest?
The live data shows a daily peak of 98,991 players, usually in the European evening. Averages over the last week put the busiest hour in UTC, so you can compare it with your own time zone. The quietest hour often has less than half the players of the peak.
Do modded servers hold more players than vanilla?
Modded servers hold more players in total, but they are also more numerous, so the average per server differs. The live split shows both the total and the average. The record so far is 145,095.