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bookorbitvsPVE-UPS

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

bookorbitPVE-UPS
Score74/10051/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Book Management#20 of 51 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars5 902360
Stars, last 30 days+1 224+3
Stable releases, 12 months2310
Latest releasev3.6.0 · 27 Oct 2026v4.3.0 · 10 Oct 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0MIT
Main languageTypescriptPython

Which one should you pick?

bookorbit scores 74/100 against 51/100 for PVE-UPS, so it is the safer default.

bookorbit ships more often: 23 stable releases in the past year, against 10 for PVE-UPS.

If you want the quickest setup, bookorbit is easier to run; PVE-UPS needs more configuration.

bookorbit is growing faster right now (+1 224 stars in 30 days).

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