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docker-red-discordbotvsZulip

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

docker-red-discordbotZulip
Score51/10082/100
Rank in category#46 of 110 in Chat#1 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars35626 131
Stars, last 30 days—+188
Stable releases, 12 months06
Latest release—12.3 · 21 Sept 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languagePythonPython

Which one should you pick?

Zulip scores 82/100 against 51/100 for docker-red-discordbot, so it is the safer default.

Zulip ships more often: 6 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for docker-red-discordbot.

Zulip is growing faster right now (+188 stars in 30 days).

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