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actions-runner-controllervsSimpleX Chat

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

actions-runner-controllerSimpleX Chat
Score71/10074/100
Rank in category#7 of 28 in CI/CD#4 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars6 61219 612
Stars, last 30 days+95+142
Stable releases, 12 months612
Latest releasegha-runner-scale-set-0.15.1 · 23 Oct 2026v7.0.4 · 3 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageGoHaskell

Which one should you pick?

SimpleX Chat scores 74/100 against 71/100 for actions-runner-controller, so it is the safer default.

SimpleX Chat ships more often: 12 stable releases in the past year, against 6 for actions-runner-controller.

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

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