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Apache HTTP ServervsTigase XMPP Server

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

Apache HTTP ServerTigase XMPP Server
Score74/10056/100
Rank in category#3 of 12 in Web Servers#30 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars—358
Stars, last 30 days—+0
Stable releases, 12 months03
Latest release—tigase-server-dist-8.4.3 · 4 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main language—Java

Which one should you pick?

Apache HTTP Server scores 74/100 against 56/100 for Tigase XMPP Server, so it is the safer default.

Tigase XMPP Server ships more often: 3 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Apache HTTP Server.

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