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cephvsSemaphore UI

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

cephSemaphore UI
Score78/10073/100
Rank in category#1 of 7 in Distributed Storage#12 of 166 in Developer Tools
GitHub stars17 17914 337
Stars, last 30 days+108+149
Stable releases, 12 months020
Latest release—v2.18.31 · 7 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherMIT
Main languageCGo

Which one should you pick?

ceph scores 78/100 against 73/100 for Semaphore UI, so it is the safer default.

Semaphore UI ships more often: 20 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for ceph.

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

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