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Appwritevsnginx-love

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

Appwritenginx-love
Score84/10050/100
Rank in category#1 of 15 in Backend as a Service#3 of 3 in Web Application Firewall
GitHub stars57 788312
Stars, last 30 days+336—
Stable releases, 12 months171
Latest release1.9.10 · 24 Oct 2026v4.01 · 31 Oct 2025
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseBSD-3-ClauseApache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

Appwrite scores 84/100 against 50/100 for nginx-love, so it is the safer default.

Appwrite ships more often: 17 stable releases in the past year, against 1 for nginx-love.

Appwrite is growing faster right now (+336 stars in 30 days).

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