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Entevsrestic-rest-server

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

Enterestic-rest-server
Score82/10060/100
Rank in category#1 of 41 in Photo Management#17 of 46 in Backup
GitHub stars29 7241 533
Stars, last 30 days+664+36
Stable releases, 12 months300
Latest releaseente-cli-v0.4.2 · 27 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0BSD-2-Clause
Main languageDartGo

Which one should you pick?

Ente scores 82/100 against 60/100 for restic-rest-server, so it is the safer default.

Ente ships more often: 30 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for restic-rest-server.

If you want the quickest setup, restic-rest-server is easier to run; Ente needs more configuration.

Ente is growing faster right now (+664 stars in 30 days).

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