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drawdbvsPanWatch

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

drawdbPanWatch
Score80/10062/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Diagramming#3 of 9 in Fintech
GitHub stars40 1702 283
Stars, last 30 days+472+132
Stable releases, 12 months012
Latest release—0.20.0 · 23 Oct 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0MIT
Main languageJavaScriptPython

Which one should you pick?

drawdb scores 80/100 against 62/100 for PanWatch, so it is the safer default.

PanWatch ships more often: 12 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for drawdb.

drawdb is growing faster right now (+472 stars in 30 days).

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