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element-webvsWA-AKG

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

element-webWA-AKG
Score75/10056/100
Rank in category#2 of 33 in Communication#30 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars13 621801
Stars, last 30 days+119—
Stable releases, 12 months177
Latest releasev1.12.33 · 27 Oct 2026v1.7.0 · 19 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0MIT
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

element-web scores 75/100 against 56/100 for WA-AKG, so it is the safer default.

element-web ships more often: 17 stable releases in the past year, against 7 for WA-AKG.

element-web is growing faster right now (+119 stars in 30 days).

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