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dagstervsYOURLS

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

dagsterYOURLS
Score77/10074/100
Rank in category#2 of 7 in Data Pipelines#1 of 23 in URL Shortener
GitHub stars16 34812 292
Stars, last 30 days+149+49
Stable releases, 12 months284
Latest release1.13.27 · 26 Oct 20261.10.6 · 30 Aug 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Main languagePythonPHP

Which one should you pick?

dagster scores 77/100 against 74/100 for YOURLS, so it is the safer default.

dagster ships more often: 28 stable releases in the past year, against 4 for YOURLS.

If you want the quickest setup, YOURLS is easier to run; dagster needs more configuration.

dagster is growing faster right now (+149 stars in 30 days).

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