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AstrBotvsYOURLS

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

AstrBotYOURLS
Score88/10074/100
Rank in category#4 of 125 in AI#1 of 23 in URL Shortener
GitHub stars44 55112 290
Stars, last 30 days+3 572+47
Stable releases, 12 months224
Latest releasev4.29.3 · 24 Oct 20261.10.6 · 30 Aug 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0MIT
Main languagePythonPHP

Which one should you pick?

AstrBot scores 88/100 against 74/100 for YOURLS, so it is the safer default.

AstrBot ships more often: 22 stable releases in the past year, against 4 for YOURLS.

AstrBot is growing faster right now (+3 572 stars in 30 days).

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