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AnubisvsZulip

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

AnubisZulip
Score80/10082/100
Rank in category#4 of 78 in Security#1 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars23 78926 134
Stars, last 30 days+1 138+184
Stable releases, 12 months116
Latest releasev1.28.2 · 23 Oct 202612.3 · 21 Sept 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Main languageGoPython

Which one should you pick?

Zulip scores 82/100 against 80/100 for Anubis, so it is the safer default.

Anubis ships more often: 11 stable releases in the past year, against 6 for Zulip.

Anubis is growing faster right now (+1 138 stars in 30 days).

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