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cloudseedervsPostgREST

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

cloudseederPostgREST
Score42/10079/100
Rank in category#13 of 20 in Application Management#2 of 13 in API
GitHub stars19927 733
Stars, last 30 days—+55
Stable releases, 12 months020
Latest release—v16.5 · 18 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseOtherMIT
Main languageShellHaskell

Which one should you pick?

PostgREST scores 79/100 against 42/100 for cloudseeder, so it is the safer default.

PostgREST ships more often: 20 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for cloudseeder.

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

PostgREST is growing faster right now (+55 stars in 30 days).

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