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deer-flowvsYOURLS

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

deer-flowYOURLS
Score86/10074/100
Rank in category#5 of 209 in AI Agents#1 of 23 in URL Shortener
GitHub stars84 61112 290
Stars, last 30 days+1 663+47
Stable releases, 12 months24
Latest releasev2.1.0 · 24 Sept 20261.10.6 · 30 Aug 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseMITMIT
Main languagePythonPHP

Which one should you pick?

deer-flow scores 86/100 against 74/100 for YOURLS, so it is the safer default.

YOURLS ships more often: 4 stable releases in the past year, against 2 for deer-flow.

If you want the quickest setup, YOURLS 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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