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cephvstextsnap

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

cephtextsnap
Score78/10045/100
Rank in category#1 of 7 in Distributed Storage#8 of 12 in Document Processing
GitHub stars17 178196
Stars, last 30 days+107+0
Stable releases, 12 months02
Latest release—v0.4.0 · 29 Sept 2026
SetupAdvancedEasy
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseOtherMIT
Main languageCPython

Which one should you pick?

ceph scores 78/100 against 45/100 for textsnap, so it is the safer default.

textsnap ships more often: 2 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for ceph.

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

ceph is growing faster right now (+107 stars in 30 days).

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