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apitablevsPhoton

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

apitablePhoton
Score65/10054/100
Rank in category#4 of 17 in Low Code#16 of 85 in Feed Reader
GitHub stars15 654557
Stars, last 30 days+35+0
Stable releases, 12 months09
Latest release—v2.4.3 · 30 Jul 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptSvelte

Which one should you pick?

apitable scores 65/100 against 54/100 for Photon, so it is the safer default.

Photon ships more often: 9 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for apitable.

apitable is growing faster right now (+35 stars in 30 days).

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