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BackstagevsTryton

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

BackstageTryton
Score78/10068/100
Rank in category#8 of 166 in Developer Tools#3 of 14 in ERP
GitHub stars34 734—
Stars, last 30 days+52—
Stable releases, 12 months140
Latest releasev1.57.0-next.0 · 27 Oct 2026—
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseApache-2.0GPL-3.0
Main languageTypescript—

Which one should you pick?

Backstage scores 78/100 against 68/100 for Tryton, so it is the safer default.

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

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

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