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Appwritevspaymenter

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

Appwritepaymenter
Score84/10068/100
Rank in category#1 of 15 in Backend as a Service#3 of 13 in Billing
GitHub stars57 7902 811
Stars, last 30 days+329+500
Stable releases, 12 months1714
Latest release1.9.10 · 24 Oct 2026v1.5.9 · 2 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseBSD-3-ClauseMIT
Main languageTypescriptPHP

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Appwrite scores 84/100 against 68/100 for paymenter, so it is the safer default.

Appwrite ships more often: 17 stable releases in the past year, against 14 for paymenter.

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