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CloudPanelvsSonatype Nexus

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

CloudPanelSonatype Nexus
Score58/10064/100
Rank in category#5 of 10 in Control Panel#2 of 11 in Package Management
GitHub stars1 8992 689
Stars, last 30 days+24+34
Stable releases, 12 months230
Latest releasev2.5.4 · 1 Jul 2026release-3.97.2-02 · 23 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
License—EPL-1.0
Main language—Java

Which one should you pick?

Sonatype Nexus scores 64/100 against 58/100 for CloudPanel, so it is the safer default.

Sonatype Nexus ships more often: 30 stable releases in the past year, against 2 for CloudPanel.

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