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

cephtesserae
Score78/10051/100
Rank in category#1 of 7 in Distributed Storage#14 of 44 in Dashboard
GitHub stars17 179982
Stars, last 30 days+108+0
Stable releases, 12 months078
Latest release—v0.480.0 · 26 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherAGPL-3.0
Main languageCPython

Which one should you pick?

ceph scores 78/100 against 51/100 for tesserae, so it is the safer default.

tesserae ships more often: 78 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for ceph.

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

ceph is growing faster right now (+108 stars in 30 days).

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