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collabora-onlinevsscalar

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

collabora-onlinescalar
Score62/10076/100
Rank in category#3 of 6 in Office Suites#3 of 13 in API
GitHub stars3 38016 337
Stars, last 30 days+33+148
Stable releases, 12 months1646
Latest releasehelm-collabora-online-1.3.7 · 23 Oct 2026release-2026-10-28-0d01943 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherMIT
Main languageShellTypescript

Which one should you pick?

scalar scores 76/100 against 62/100 for collabora-online, so it is the safer default.

scalar ships more often: 46 stable releases in the past year, against 16 for collabora-online.

If you want the quickest setup, scalar is easier to run; collabora-online needs more configuration.

scalar is growing faster right now (+148 stars in 30 days).

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