solana-cli is used at run time in 2 crates. It's used only as a dev dependency in 1 crate.

Number of dependers solana-cli version Downloads/month
1 2.2.7 800
1 2.1.21 700
1 1.18.26 290
Depender (with downloads and own rev deps) solana-cli version
1.8K solana-cargo-registry =1.18.26
900 agave-cargo-registry =2.2.7
600 yellowstone-shield-store dev ~2.1.11