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AListvsportabase

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

AListportabase
Score83/10060/100
Rank in category#1 of 34 in File Management#3 of 15 in Backup Management
GitHub stars50 3651 860
Stars, last 30 days+150+95
Stable releases, 12 months1264
Latest releasev3.66.0 · 21 Oct 20261.35.0 · 27 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageGoTypescript

Which one should you pick?

AList scores 83/100 against 60/100 for portabase, so it is the safer default.

portabase ships more often: 64 stable releases in the past year, against 12 for AList.

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