players on 11,806 public Rust servers right now, and 900 more waiting in queues
Roll taken
· 13m ago
· a new count every few minutes
On the roll right now
90,172
✓ all present and counted
Peak, last 24 hours98,991at 18:00 UTC
Low, last 24 hours33,256at 05:00 UTC
vs this hour yesterday+0.0%hourly averages compared
Busiest hour, UTC17:0097,734 on average; quietest 05:00
Servers with players on3,950of 11,806 online
Highest daily peak145,095on 3 Oct, since 11 Jun
Official or not
Rust's in-game Official tab against everything else
PlayersShareServers48 hoursvs 24h ago
Officialthe in-game Official tab246 servers
14,244
15.8%
246
+17%
Non-officialcommunity and modded servers11,560 servers
75,928
84.2%
11,560
-3%
All players online11,806 servers
90,172
100%
11,806
Official servers are the ones in Rust's in-game Official tab: Facepunch's own and its partners', such as RustSpain. Rust Server Score keeps that list by hand, by hostname and address. Everything else is a community or modded server.
This is everyone on a public Rust server right now: 90,172 players across 11,806 servers, refreshed every five minutes. Below the live total you can see the day so far, the 98,991 peak and the record of 145,095, then the same players split by game mode, modded or not, group size, gather rate, region and wipe day. A few large servers hold most of the players, so the split matters more than the total.
Players across Rust · last 48 hours
UTC
Players across Rust · every day since 11 June
daily average
Before 12 September the history is BattleMetrics' count; from then on it is Rust Server Score's own, leaving out the servers on the banlist.
How the players split
The class sizes: every server online is counted once in each breakdown, so each one adds up to the 90,172 players on 11,806 servers.
Modded or not
rates, rules and plugins
PlayersShareServers48 hoursvs 24h ago
Moddedrates, kits or rules changed8,491 servers
62,680
69.5%
8,491
-3%
Community with pluginsruns Oxide or Carbon but calls itself unmodded993 servers
10,972
12.2%
993
+23%
Unmoddedno plugin framework at all2,322 servers
16,520
18.3%
2,322
-1%
All players online11,806 servers
90,172
100%
11,806
Oxide runs on 7,486 servers with 53,664 players, Carbon on 1,894 with 16,733. 2,662 servers with 44,737 players call themselves vanilla.
By game mode
what each server is for
PlayersShareServers48 hoursvs 24h ago
Survivalthe standard game: gather, build, raid9,189 servers
The figure at the top of the page counts every player on a public Rust server, refreshed every five minutes. It moves through the day, so the current number and the 98,991 peak can differ a lot. 900 players are waiting in queues at this refresh.
Why is this lower than the Steam player count?
Steam counts everyone with Rust open, including players in menus, on loading screens and on servers that do not list publicly. This page counts only players on public servers, which is also what lets it split them by type. Both numbers are real, but they answer different questions.
When are the most players online?
The busiest hours follow the European evening, with a second rise for the US evening. The quietest hours are early morning in Europe. The history above shows this in the live data, last updated 27 Oct 2026, 15:40 UTC.
Are more players on modded or vanilla servers?
Modded servers usually hold more players in total, mainly because there are many more of them. The split on this page is live and changes as servers report. For a like-for-like view, check the graded lists of modded and vanilla servers.