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brightbean-studiovsvanilla-cookbook

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

brightbean-studiovanilla-cookbook
Score60/10046/100
Rank in category#3 of 18 in Social Media Management#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars2 594158
Stars, last 30 days+224+0
Stable releases, 12 months013
Latest release—v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Main languagePythonJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

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

vanilla-cookbook ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for brightbean-studio.

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

brightbean-studio is growing faster right now (+224 stars in 30 days).

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