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AListvswindmill

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

AListwindmill
Score83/10077/100
Rank in category#1 of 34 in File Management#6 of 32 in Workflow Automation
GitHub stars50 36918 308
Stars, last 30 days+154+288
Stable releases, 12 months12163
Latest releasev3.66.0 · 21 Oct 2026v1.853.0 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0Other
Main languageGoRust

Which one should you pick?

AList scores 83/100 against 77/100 for windmill, so it is the safer default.

windmill ships more often: 163 stable releases in the past year, against 12 for AList.

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