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Blackbox exportervsTypecho

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

Blackbox exporterTypecho
Score70/10066/100
Rank in category#3 of 51 in Monitoring & observability#1 of 24 in Blogging
GitHub stars5 92412 456
Stars, last 30 days+18+9
Stable releases, 12 months32
Latest releasev0.29.1 · 21 Oct 2026ci · 17 Jul 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseApache-2.0GPL-2.0
Main languageGoPHP

Which one should you pick?

Blackbox exporter scores 70/100 against 66/100 for Typecho, so it is the safer default.

Blackbox exporter ships more often: 3 stable releases in the past year, against 2 for Typecho.

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