Rust player count
players on 11,806 public Rust servers right now, and 900 more waiting in queues
Last updated · 13m ago · a new count every few minutes
Official 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 Wipe Tracker keeps that list by hand, by hostname and address. Everything else is a community or modded server.
Here is who is on a public Rust server right now: 90,172 players across 11,806 servers, with 900 waiting in queues. This page counts only servers that list themselves publicly, refreshed every five minutes, last updated 27 Oct 2026, 15:40 UTC. Below the current figure you get the last day and the last months of population, the day's busiest point at 98,991, and how those players divide by game mode, modded or not, group size, gather rate, region and how fresh the wipe is. A handful of servers hold most of them.
Players across Rust · last 48 hours
UTCPlayers across Rust · every day since 11 June
daily averageBefore 12 September the history is BattleMetrics' count; from then on it is Rust Wipe Tracker'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 90,172 players on 11,806 servers.
Modded or not
rates, rules and pluginsOxide 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 forPremium-only servers (296, with 1,768 players) are counted in their mode: premium decides who may join, not how the game plays.
By region
where the server says it isBy gather rate
read from the server's nameBy group size
the team limit servers publishBy last wipe
how fresh the map isBy wipe schedule
what servers publishBy server size
players on each server nowWhen Rust is busiest
average over the last week · UTCBusiest servers right now
all servers →- 1 EU | Helli's Aimtrain | Facechecks/1v1/Ranked/Hellis 2,029 / 2100
- 2 MIRAGE RUST | TUESDAY 2x | VANILLA+ | Wipe 27.10 1,622 +73 / 1700
- 3 MIRAGE RUST | MONDAY 2x | VANILLA+ | Wipe 26.10 1,118 / 1900
- 4 Atlas - EU 2X Monthly | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes 968 / 1050
- 5 RustReborn.gg EU - Bedwars | AimTrain | Creative | Arena | FFA 918 / 950
- 6 Atlas - EU 3x | No BPs | Mondays 881 / 950
- 7 [RU] RUST ROOM BUILD 2.0 by GJ | CREATIVE & SANDBOX 847 / 849
- 8 Rustoria.co - EU Mondays 819 / 875
- 9 Rusty Moose |EU Mondays| 813 +31 / 850
- 10 Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes 763 / 800
Questions
Q01How many people are playing Rust right now?
The figure at the top of this page is every player on a public Rust server, refreshed every five minutes. It moves through the day, so a quiet morning in the UK and a busy European evening can differ by more than double. Check the last-day chart to see where you are in the cycle.
Q02Why does this differ from Steam's Rust player count?
Steam counts everyone with Rust open, including menus, loading screens and servers that keep themselves private. Rust Wipe Tracker counts players on public servers only, which is what lets the page split them by modded, mode and region. Expect our number to sit below Steam's.
Q03When is Rust busiest?
The European evening, in UK time and UTC. Players on the US east coast join after midnight in the UK, and Australian evenings fall in the UK morning. The hourly chart is averaged over the last week, and wipe days push the figure well above a normal 98,991.
Q04Do modded or vanilla servers hold more players?
Modded holds more players in total, mostly because there are far more modded servers. The split on this page is live and shifts as servers report every five minutes. For the whole picture, see the full server list.