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cephvsTwake Chat

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

cephTwake Chat
Score78/10046/100
Rank in category#1 of 7 in Distributed Storage#64 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars17 179172
Stars, last 30 days+108+0
Stable releases, 12 months010
Latest release—v2.26.0 · 27 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherAGPL-3.0
Main languageCDart

Which one should you pick?

ceph scores 78/100 against 46/100 for Twake Chat, so it is the safer default.

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

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

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

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