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CMS Made SimplevsUnderstudy

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

CMS Made SimpleUnderstudy
Score64/10048/100
Rank in category#12 of 42 in Content Management#110 of 209 in AI Agents
GitHub stars—465
Stars, last 30 days——
Stable releases, 12 months00
Latest release——
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseGPL-2.0MIT
Main language—Typescript

Which one should you pick?

CMS Made Simple scores 64/100 against 48/100 for Understudy, so it is the safer default.

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