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cephvsOctoBot

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

cephOctoBot
Score78/10069/100
Rank in category#1 of 7 in Distributed Storage#6 of 42 in Cryptocurrency
GitHub stars17 1806 872
Stars, last 30 days+109+257
Stable releases, 12 months05
Latest release—2.1.1 · 30 Mar 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherGPL-3.0
Main languageCPython

Which one should you pick?

ceph scores 78/100 against 69/100 for OctoBot, so it is the safer default.

OctoBot ships more often: 5 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for ceph.

If you want the quickest setup, OctoBot is easier to run; ceph needs more configuration.

OctoBot is growing faster right now (+257 stars in 30 days).

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