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drawdbvsTransformer Lab

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

drawdbTransformer Lab
Score80/10061/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Diagramming#12 of 25 in LLM Inference
GitHub stars40 1605 200
Stars, last 30 days+469+3
Stable releases, 12 months09
Latest release—v0.40.1 · 19 Jun 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageJavaScriptPython

Which one should you pick?

drawdb scores 80/100 against 61/100 for Transformer Lab, so it is the safer default.

Transformer Lab ships more often: 9 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for drawdb.

If you want the quickest setup, drawdb is easier to run; Transformer Lab needs more configuration.

drawdb is growing faster right now (+469 stars in 30 days).

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