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avideovsvanilla-cookbook

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

avideovanilla-cookbook
Score58/10046/100
Rank in category#7 of 36 in Video Streaming#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars2 109158
Stars, last 30 days+5+0
Stable releases, 12 months1313
Latest releasev29.6.0 · 26 Oct 2026v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseOtherGPL-3.0
Main languageJavaScriptJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

avideo scores 58/100 against 46/100 for vanilla-cookbook, so it is the safer default.

If you want the quickest setup, vanilla-cookbook is easier to run; avideo needs more configuration.

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

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