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Backstagevslxd-dashboard

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

Backstagelxd-dashboard
Score78/10043/100
Rank in category#8 of 166 in Developer Tools#34 of 44 in Container Management
GitHub stars34 734348
Stars, last 30 days+52—
Stable releases, 12 months140
Latest releasev1.57.0-next.0 · 27 Oct 2026—
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptHack

Which one should you pick?

Backstage scores 78/100 against 43/100 for lxd-dashboard, so it is the safer default.

Backstage ships more often: 14 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for lxd-dashboard.

If you want the quickest setup, lxd-dashboard is easier to run; Backstage needs more configuration.

Backstage is growing faster right now (+52 stars in 30 days).

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