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CompreFacevsUnison

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

CompreFaceUnison
Score70/10065/100
Rank in category#18 of 125 in AI#2 of 15 in File Sync
GitHub stars8 3885 559
Stars, last 30 days+60+66
Stable releases, 12 months02
Latest release—v2.54.0 · 1 May 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseApache-2.0GPL-3.0
Main languageJavaOCaml

Which one should you pick?

CompreFace scores 70/100 against 65/100 for Unison, so it is the safer default.

Unison ships more often: 2 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for CompreFace.

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