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brightbean-studiovsunbagrnd

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

brightbean-studiounbagrnd
Score60/10046/100
Rank in category#3 of 18 in Social Media Management#10 of 13 in Image Processing
GitHub stars2 595178
Stars, last 30 days+225+-1
Stable releases, 12 months08
Latest release—v0.5.6 · 14 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0MIT
Main languagePythonRust

Which one should you pick?

brightbean-studio scores 60/100 against 46/100 for unbagrnd, so it is the safer default.

unbagrnd ships more often: 8 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for brightbean-studio.

If you want the quickest setup, unbagrnd is easier to run; brightbean-studio needs more configuration.

brightbean-studio is growing faster right now (+225 stars in 30 days).

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