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BentoPDFvsprom-alertmanager

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

BentoPDFprom-alertmanager
Score77/10073/100
Rank in category#2 of 12 in Document Processing#14 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars16 1768 676
Stars, last 30 days+477+49
Stable releases, 12 months1511
Latest releasev2.8.10 · 19 Oct 2026v0.34.1 · 17 Sept 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageJavaScriptGo

Which one should you pick?

BentoPDF scores 77/100 against 73/100 for prom-alertmanager, so it is the safer default.

BentoPDF ships more often: 15 stable releases in the past year, against 11 for prom-alertmanager.

If you want the quickest setup, BentoPDF is easier to run; prom-alertmanager needs more configuration.

BentoPDF is growing faster right now (+477 stars in 30 days).

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