Differential source counts of MALS DR2 at 1.27 GHz. We show both the raw (uncorrected) counts (empty green squares) as well as the counts corrected for the sky area in which sources in each bin can be detected above 5σ of the local noise (filled green squares). This area was derived using the rms images produced by PYBDSF. We additionally show corrected source counts for the catalogue used for the dipole measurement, which only contains sources within 1.1° of each pointing centre (light green circles). For comparison, we show the 1.28 GHz source counts derived from SKADS (grey, Wilman et al. 2008), the combined DEEP2 and NVSS source counts from Matthews et al. (2021) in blue, and the MIGHTEE modified SKADS corrected source counts for the COSMOS (red) and XMM-LSS (yellow) fields from Hale et al. (2023). At the faint end, the sky coverage corrections produce reliable source counts down to 200 µJy.