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deer-flowvsosTicket

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

deer-flowosTicket
Score86/10066/100
Rank in category#5 of 209 in AI Agents#2 of 9 in Helpdesk
GitHub stars84 6523 998
Stars, last 30 days+1 704+75
Stable releases, 12 months24
Latest releasev2.1.0 · 24 Sept 2026v1.18.4 · 17 Jun 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseMITGPL-2.0
Main languagePythonPHP

Which one should you pick?

deer-flow scores 86/100 against 66/100 for osTicket, so it is the safer default.

osTicket ships more often: 4 stable releases in the past year, against 2 for deer-flow.

If you want the quickest setup, osTicket is easier to run; deer-flow needs more configuration.

deer-flow is growing faster right now (+1 704 stars in 30 days).

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