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drawdbvsMQTTX Web

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

drawdbMQTTX Web
Score80/10067/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Diagramming#3 of 10 in IoT
GitHub stars40 1545 086
Stars, last 30 days+463+22
Stable releases, 12 months03
Latest release—v1.13.2 · 26 Oct 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageJavaScriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

drawdb scores 80/100 against 67/100 for MQTTX Web, so it is the safer default.

MQTTX Web ships more often: 3 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for drawdb.

drawdb is growing faster right now (+463 stars in 30 days).

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