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avideovsShinken

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

avideoShinken
Score58/10053/100
Rank in category#7 of 36 in Video Streaming#17 of 51 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars2 1091 135
Stars, last 30 days+5+0
Stable releases, 12 months130
Latest releasev29.6.0 · 26 Oct 2026—
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseOtherAGPL-3.0
Main languageJavaScriptPython

Which one should you pick?

avideo scores 58/100 against 53/100 for Shinken, so it is the safer default.

avideo ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Shinken.

avideo is growing faster right now (+5 stars in 30 days).

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