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deer-flowvsrustypaste

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

deer-flowrustypaste
Score86/10056/100
Rank in category#5 of 209 in AI Agents#32 of 86 in File Sharing
GitHub stars84 6111 214
Stars, last 30 days+1 663+7
Stable releases, 12 months23
Latest releasev2.1.0 · 24 Sept 2026v0.18.1 · 7 Sept 2026
SetupAdvancedEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseMITMIT
Main languagePythonRust

Which one should you pick?

deer-flow scores 86/100 against 56/100 for rustypaste, so it is the safer default.

rustypaste ships more often: 3 stable releases in the past year, against 2 for deer-flow.

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

deer-flow is growing faster right now (+1 663 stars in 30 days).

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