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EMQXvsTube Archivist

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

EMQXTube Archivist
Score78/10072/100
Rank in category#1 of 14 in Messaging#7 of 118 in Media Server
GitHub stars16 8698 552
Stars, last 30 days+114+83
Stable releases, 12 months156
Latest release6.3.2 · 16 Oct 2026v0.6.0 · 25 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherGPL-3.0
Main languageErlangPython

Which one should you pick?

EMQX scores 78/100 against 72/100 for Tube Archivist, so it is the safer default.

EMQX ships more often: 15 stable releases in the past year, against 6 for Tube Archivist.

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