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deer-flowvsrpi-mqtt-monitor

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

deer-flowrpi-mqtt-monitor
Score86/10051/100
Rank in category#5 of 209 in AI Agents#58 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars84 589328
Stars, last 30 days+1 668—
Stable releases, 12 months28
Latest releasev2.1.0 · 24 Sept 20261.4.3 · 18 Jun 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonPython

Which one should you pick?

deer-flow scores 86/100 against 51/100 for rpi-mqtt-monitor, so it is the safer default.

rpi-mqtt-monitor ships more often: 8 stable releases in the past year, against 2 for deer-flow.

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

deer-flow is growing faster right now (+1 668 stars in 30 days).

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