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cephvsThingport

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

cephThingport
Score78/10049/100
Rank in category#1 of 7 in Distributed Storage#14 of 22 in 3D Printing
GitHub stars17 180242
Stars, last 30 days+109+6
Stable releases, 12 months010
Latest release—extension-latest · 25 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherAGPL-3.0
Main languageCTypescript

Which one should you pick?

ceph scores 78/100 against 49/100 for Thingport, so it is the safer default.

Thingport ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for ceph.

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

ceph is growing faster right now (+109 stars in 30 days).

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