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AListvsWebCodex

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

AListWebCodex
Score83/10055/100
Rank in category#1 of 34 in File Management#60 of 166 in Developer Tools
GitHub stars50 3692 447
Stars, last 30 days+154—
Stable releases, 12 months127
Latest releasev3.66.0 · 21 Oct 2026v0.4.6 · 4 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageGoRust

Which one should you pick?

AList scores 83/100 against 55/100 for WebCodex, so it is the safer default.

AList ships more often: 12 stable releases in the past year, against 7 for WebCodex.

AList is growing faster right now (+154 stars in 30 days).

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