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drawdbvsMediaMTX

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

drawdbMediaMTX
Score80/10079/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Diagramming#3 of 118 in Media Server
GitHub stars40 16820 540
Stars, last 30 days+470+288
Stable releases, 12 months018
Latest release—v1.21.3 · 25 Oct 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0MIT
Main languageJavaScriptGo

Which one should you pick?

drawdb scores 80/100 against 79/100 for MediaMTX, so it is the safer default.

MediaMTX ships more often: 18 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for drawdb.

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