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bolt.diyvsSonatype Nexus

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

bolt.diySonatype Nexus
Score76/10064/100
Rank in category#9 of 120 in AI Assistant#2 of 11 in Package Management
GitHub stars20 0032 691
Stars, last 30 days+97+36
Stable releases, 12 months130
Latest releasev1.0.1 · 12 Oct 2026release-3.97.2-02 · 23 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseMITEPL-1.0
Main languageTypescriptJava

Which one should you pick?

bolt.diy scores 76/100 against 64/100 for Sonatype Nexus, so it is the safer default.

Sonatype Nexus ships more often: 30 stable releases in the past year, against 1 for bolt.diy.

bolt.diy is growing faster right now (+97 stars in 30 days).

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