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Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

actions-runner-controllerOmniTools
Score71/10071/100
Rank in category#7 of 28 in CI/CD#15 of 166 in Developer Tools
GitHub stars6 61210 491
Stars, last 30 days+95+248
Stable releases, 12 months61
Latest releasegha-runner-scale-set-0.15.1 · 23 Oct 2026v0.7.0 · 20 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Main languageGoTypescript

Which one should you pick?

actions-runner-controller and OmniTools score the same (71/100), so the choice comes down to the details below.

actions-runner-controller ships more often: 6 stable releases in the past year, against 1 for OmniTools.

If you want the quickest setup, OmniTools is easier to run; actions-runner-controller needs more configuration.

OmniTools is growing faster right now (+248 stars in 30 days).

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