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deer-flowvsPDFMathTranslate

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

deer-flowPDFMathTranslate
Score86/10080/100
Rank in category#4 of 209 in AI Agents#1 of 9 in Translation
GitHub stars84 57437 998
Stars, last 30 days+1 653+286
Stable releases, 12 months20
Latest releasev2.1.0 · 24 Sept 2026—
SetupAdvancedEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonPython

Which one should you pick?

deer-flow scores 86/100 against 80/100 for PDFMathTranslate, so it is the safer default.

deer-flow ships more often: 2 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for PDFMathTranslate.

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

deer-flow is growing faster right now (+1 653 stars in 30 days).

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