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Backstagevso-spreadsheet

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

Backstageo-spreadsheet
Score79/10049/100
Rank in category#8 of 166 in Developer Tools#10 of 10 in Data Management
GitHub stars34 737297
Stars, last 30 days+55+0
Stable releases, 12 months1414
Latest releasev1.57.0-next.0 · 27 Oct 202620.0.5 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseApache-2.0Other
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

Backstage scores 79/100 against 49/100 for o-spreadsheet, so it is the safer default.

Backstage is growing faster right now (+55 stars in 30 days).

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