selfhost.directory

The index of self-hostable projects — ranked, categorized and served with live updates.
Own your data and stop giving it to big tech.

altchavsWorld Monitor

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

altchaWorld Monitor
Score63/10086/100
Rank in category#2 of 4 in Anti-Spam#5 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars2 85889 742
Stars, last 30 days+82+2 403
Stable releases, 12 months1817
Latest releasev3.5.0 · 22 Oct 2026v2.11.6 · 25 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

World Monitor scores 86/100 against 63/100 for altcha, so it is the safer default.

altcha ships more often: 18 stable releases in the past year, against 17 for World Monitor.

If you want the quickest setup, altcha is easier to run; World Monitor needs more configuration.

World Monitor is growing faster right now (+2 403 stars in 30 days).

Swap a project

Keep altcha, compare it with
Keep World Monitor, compare it with