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AdGuard Homevssphinx-relay

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

AdGuard Homesphinx-relay
Score84/10044/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in DNS#71 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars37 814247
Stars, last 30 days+770—
Stable releases, 12 months160
Latest releasev1.0.0-b.1 · 30 Sept 2026—
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseGPL-3.0MIT
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

AdGuard Home scores 84/100 against 44/100 for sphinx-relay, so it is the safer default.

AdGuard Home ships more often: 16 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for sphinx-relay.

If you want the quickest setup, AdGuard Home is easier to run; sphinx-relay needs more configuration.

AdGuard Home is growing faster right now (+770 stars in 30 days).

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