Four Billion Installs?

NOTE

This blog post is being published on 5h September 2025, however, the roll over to 4 billion downloads happened on the 27th August 2025, which is why the blog post uses that date.

It was just over 1 year ago when we announced 3 billion package installations from the Chocolatey Community Repository. It took us just under 9 years to get to our first billion downloads. But each subsequent billion is taking less and less time to reach!

The 3 billion package installations happened on 31 May 2024. At that time we had just under 10,500 unique packages and just over 220,000 total packages. Today we have grown those numbers to almost 11,000 unique packages and a staggering 264,000 total packages! Chocolatey Software hosts the largest community repository of Windows packages of any software or package manager on Windows today.

This is all thanks to the hard work by our awesome volunteer Community Moderators, individual package maintainers and the Chocolatey Community Chocolatey Packages maintainers. Thank you to each one of you!

And just because everyone loves a table, or is that just me?!?

Date	Event	Unique Packages	Total Packages	Days between each event
1st September 2011	CCR Created	51	161	N/A
19th May 2020	1 Billion Installs	7739	92,288	3183 (8.7 years)
9th September 2022	2 Billion Installs	9562	165,040	843 (2.3 years)
31 May 2024	3 Billion Installs	10424	220,893	630 (1.7 years)
27th August 2025	4 Billion Installs	10905	264,188	453 (1.2 years)
Place your bets!	5 Billion Installs	???	???	???

Some fun questions to make you all think…

• When do we think the 5 Billion package installs is going to happen?
• What packages do you think existed in the 51 packages that were available when CCR first released?
• What was the first package downloaded from the Chocolatey Community Repository?