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deer-flowvsShiny Server

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

deer-flowShiny Server
Score86/10057/100
Rank in category#5 of 209 in AI Agents#2 of 20 in Application Management
GitHub stars84 611763
Stars, last 30 days+1 663+0
Stable releases, 12 months20
Latest releasev2.1.0 · 24 Sept 2026—
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseMITOther
Main languagePythonJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

deer-flow scores 86/100 against 57/100 for Shiny Server, so it is the safer default.

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

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

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