OpenSim’s land area and active users both declined this week, largely due to the OSgrid outage that lasted more than two weeks.
Since OSgrid was online last month, it is still included in this statistical report.
The public metaverse lost the equivalent of 4,116 standard-sized areas this month, losing 370 active users, for a total of 145,420. Area and 48,006 active.
Furthermore, Littlefield, which had over 400 locations and over 600 active users last month, has not reported any statistics this month, its website is down at the time of writing, its Twitter page has had no updates since early 2025 and its Faccebook page displays a “Content unavailable” message.
However, the total number of registered users increased by more than 7,000, primarily because EdMondo, an education grid with more than 10,000 registered users, was backed up. It went down in May.
This month we added the following grids to our database: Ay Island, Flotsam, Kirmes Creations, Lux Serenity, MK3, OpenSim Network and SkyeLand.
Twelve grids were suspended this month: Alterlifes, Austria Grid, CandorsRPWorld, Fresh MetaVerse Retro, Life RPG World, Nekolution, Ocean Grid, Serenity, Sublimit Metaverse, Tedesco Sim’s, Vivec, and XTAL.
Our statistics do not include most grids running on DreamGrid, a free, easy-to-use version of OpenSim. Because these grids are often private grids.
OpenSim is a free, open-source virtual world platform similar to Second Life that allows non-technical people to quickly and inexpensively create virtual worlds and teleport to other virtual worlds. Those with technical skills can run OpenSim worlds on a server for free using DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for the more technically minded, or another distribution, while commercial hosting starts at less than $5 per region.
A list of OpenSim hosting providers is here. If you offer a local rental but are not on this list, please email us!
Download the recommended Firestorm viewer here and learn where to get content for your OpenSim world or region here.
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Top 25 grids by active users
For general purpose social grids, especially closed grids, the rule of thumb is that the more crowded the better. People looking to make new friends look for grids that already have the most users. Sellers looking to sell content go to the grid with the most potential customers. Event organizers looking for the largest audience – you get the idea.
The top 25 most popular grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 12,855 active users
- OSgrid: 3,180 active users
- GBG World: 2,481 active users
- Alternate Metaverse: 2,247 active users
- DigiWorldz: 1,971 active users
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,529 active users
- Groovy Verse: 1,509 active users
- Cave Grid: 1,247 active users
- Sciattisi Grid: 1,134 active users
- Neverworld: 1,126 active users
- Sanctum Astra: 936 active users
- New Life Italy: 905 active users
- Trianon World: 899 active users
- AvatarLife: 824 active users
- Craft World: 778 active users
- BloodMoon: 723 active users
- AviWorlds: 719 active users
- Party Target Grid: 719 active users
- Friend Grid: 606 active users
- Living Free: 519 active users
- SpaceGrid: 503 active users
- Eureka World: 446 active users
- ZetaWorlds: 444 active users
- Astralia: 425 active users
- MK3: 395 active users
Online marketplace for OpenSim content
As of May, Kitely Market had 21,960 product listings, including 42,792 product variants, 37,485 of which were exportable, according to Kitely CEO Ilan Tochner.
“Considering the current downtime of OSgrid, Kightly We put it on the market and had it deliver orders to the OSgrid avatar so we could relay those orders back. Kightly Avatar,’ Tochner said. Hypergrid business. “Kightly Providing people with reliable homes and helping buyers Kightly “Establish a marketplace to regain access to purchases lost when the grid shuts down.”
Kightly Market has delivered orders to 679 OpenSim grids to date.
Historically, all of the growth in the Kitely market has come from exportable content. This means that shoppers can deliver purchased items directly to their avatar’s inventory in other grids and travel to other grids with their content.
In the early days of OpenSim, many creators considered it a security risk and non-exportable content dominated. However, creators quickly realized that most of Copybot’s content actually came from Second Life, where all of it was non-exportable. And copybot tools and content thieves typically don’t check item permissions before committing the theft. Instead, allowing people to purchase exported content legally, conveniently, and at a reasonable price would completely destroy the copybot economy, leaving only a handful of freebie stores that are not yet aware of their existence and are demolished.
Another source of legal content for OpenSim is Linda Kellie’s products and those of other creators who make their products available for free under Creative Commons and similar licenses. Many official free stores in OpenSim Grid offer these products.
This is similar to how Netflix and other low-cost and free streaming services have dramatically reduced online movie piracy.
Kitely Market is the largest collection of commercial legal content available on OpenSim. You can access both hypergrid-enabled grids and closed private grids. Instructions on how to configure Kitely Market for a closed grid are available here.
Top 40 grids by land area
All region numbers in this list are based on standard regions whenever possible. Active user counts include Hypergrid visitors whenever possible.
There were a total of 314 active grids this month, of which 241 had published statistics. We are currently tracking a total of 2,143 grids.
Many schools, companies or private grids do not make their numbers public.
The raw data for this month’s report is available here. A list of all active grids is here. Below is a list of all HyperGrid supported grids and their HyperGrid addresses, sorted by popularity. This is very useful when creating hyperports.
You can view all past OpenSim statistics, including opinion polls, dating back to 2009 here.
- Wolf Territory Grid: 33,856 locations
- OSgrid: 21,088 regions
- Kitely: 17,730 locations
- ZetaWorlds: 16,954 locations
- Groovy Verse: 13,986 locations
- Alternate Metaverse: 11,883 locations
- Neverworld: 2,984 locations
- DigiWorldz: 2,520 locations
- GBG World: 1,929 locations
- Discovery Grid: 1,614 locations
- Tag grid: 1,577 locations
- Friends Grid: 1,497 locations
- Subversion space: 1,040 regions
- ArtDestiny: 1,024 locations
- Virtual world grid: 910 regions
- Craft World: 907 locations
- Exotic Reality: 759 locations
- Kinky Haven: 705 locations
- AviWorlds: 646 locations
- New Life Italy: 636 locations
- AvatarLife: 632 locations
- Virtual World Zones: 562 locations
- Darkheart’s Playground: 424 locations
- Furry World: 358 locations
- BloodMoon: 313 locations
- EdMondo: 310 locations
- Coconut Migration: 247 locations
- Open virtual world: 241 locations
- MisFitz grid: 210 locations
- Japan Open Grid: 201 regions
- Fun rides: 193 locations
- Detection limit: 185 regions
- Spartan Citadel: 180 locations
- Maze of the Mind: 174 locations
- I Love You Grid: 172 regions
- Cater & Friends: 171 locations
- Dynamic Worlds: 171 locations
- Adreans-World: 165 locations
- Seconds: 161 regions
- Logic Camp: 142 regions
Do you know of any other grids that are available to the public but not in my database? Please send me an email. (email protected).
