selfhost.directory

The index of self-hostable projects — ranked, categorized and served with live updates.
Own your data and stop giving it to big tech.

Blackbox exportervsTwake Chat

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

Blackbox exporterTwake Chat
Score70/10046/100
Rank in category#3 of 51 in Monitoring & observability#64 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars5 922172
Stars, last 30 days+16+0
Stable releases, 12 months310
Latest releasev0.29.1 · 21 Oct 2026v2.26.0 · 27 Oct 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageGoDart

Which one should you pick?

Blackbox exporter scores 70/100 against 46/100 for Twake Chat, so it is the safer default.

Twake Chat ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 3 for Blackbox exporter.

If you want the quickest setup, Blackbox exporter is easier to run; Twake Chat needs more configuration.

Blackbox exporter is growing faster right now (+16 stars in 30 days).

Swap a project

Keep Blackbox exporter, compare it with
Keep Twake Chat, compare it with