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CMS Made SimplevsMeshery

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

CMS Made SimpleMeshery
Score64/10073/100
Rank in category#12 of 42 in Content Management#2 of 7 in Kubernetes
GitHub stars—12 073
Stars, last 30 days—+52
Stable releases, 12 months012
Latest release—v1.0.74 · 22 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseGPL-2.0Apache-2.0
Main language—Typescript

Which one should you pick?

Meshery scores 73/100 against 64/100 for CMS Made Simple, so it is the safer default.

Meshery ships more often: 12 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for CMS Made Simple.

Meshery is growing faster right now (+52 stars in 30 days).

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