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deer-flowvsWinter CMS

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

deer-flowWinter CMS
Score86/10062/100
Rank in category#5 of 209 in AI Agents#16 of 42 in Content Management
GitHub stars84 5891 522
Stars, last 30 days+1 668+2
Stable releases, 12 months27
Latest releasev2.1.0 · 24 Sept 2026v1.2.14 · 19 Aug 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseMITMIT
Main languagePythonPHP

Which one should you pick?

deer-flow scores 86/100 against 62/100 for Winter CMS, so it is the safer default.

Winter CMS ships more often: 7 stable releases in the past year, against 2 for deer-flow.

If you want the quickest setup, Winter CMS 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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