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directusvsnextcloud-aio-mastercontainer

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

directusnextcloud-aio-mastercontainer
Score79/10076/100
Rank in category#3 of 13 in Headless CMS#2 of 27 in File Sharing & Collaboration
GitHub stars38 72010 748
Stars, last 30 days+759+264
Stable releases, 12 months1837
Latest releasev12.6.0 · 27 Oct 2026helm-chart-14.4.2 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseOtherAGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptPHP

Which one should you pick?

directus scores 79/100 against 76/100 for nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer, so it is the safer default.

nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer ships more often: 37 stable releases in the past year, against 18 for directus.

If you want the quickest setup, nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer is easier to run; directus needs more configuration.

directus is growing faster right now (+759 stars in 30 days).

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