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bookwyrmvsnginx-ldap-auth

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

bookwyrmnginx-ldap-auth
Score58/10043/100
Rank in category#26 of 69 in Social Networks & Forums#31 of 40 in Authentication
GitHub stars2 808709
Stars, last 30 days+22+0
Stable releases, 12 months120
Latest releasev0.9.4 · 29 Oct 2026—
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseOtherBSD-2-Clause
Main languagePythonPython

Which one should you pick?

bookwyrm scores 58/100 against 43/100 for nginx-ldap-auth, so it is the safer default.

bookwyrm ships more often: 12 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for nginx-ldap-auth.

bookwyrm is growing faster right now (+22 stars in 30 days).

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