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copypartyvsProxmox Kubernetes Engine

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

copypartyProxmox Kubernetes Engine
Score82/10041/100
Rank in category#1 of 86 in File Sharing#10 of 11 in Container Orchestration
GitHub stars47 175244
Stars, last 30 days+392+0
Stable releases, 12 months197
Latest releasev1.20.26 · 14 Oct 2026v0.0.7 · 13 Sept 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languagePython—

Which one should you pick?

copyparty scores 82/100 against 41/100 for Proxmox Kubernetes Engine, so it is the safer default.

copyparty ships more often: 19 stable releases in the past year, against 7 for Proxmox Kubernetes Engine.

If you want the quickest setup, copyparty is easier to run; Proxmox Kubernetes Engine needs more configuration.

copyparty is growing faster right now (+392 stars in 30 days).

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