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deer-flowvsReadMeABook

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

deer-flowReadMeABook
Score86/10064/100
Rank in category#4 of 209 in AI Agents#3 of 15 in Audiobook Management
GitHub stars84 5601 033
Stars, last 30 days+1 639+65
Stable releases, 12 months221
Latest releasev2.1.0 · 24 Sept 2026v1.2.12 · 27 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonTypescript

Which one should you pick?

deer-flow scores 86/100 against 64/100 for ReadMeABook, so it is the safer default.

ReadMeABook ships more often: 21 stable releases in the past year, against 2 for deer-flow.

deer-flow is growing faster right now (+1 639 stars in 30 days).

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