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ESPHomevsSonatype Nexus

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

ESPHomeSonatype Nexus
Score78/10064/100
Rank in category#4 of 104 in Home Automation#2 of 11 in Package Management
GitHub stars11 9792 691
Stars, last 30 days+257+36
Stable releases, 12 months4630
Latest release2026.10.1 · 27 Oct 2026release-3.97.2-02 · 23 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherEPL-1.0
Main languageCJava

Which one should you pick?

ESPHome scores 78/100 against 64/100 for Sonatype Nexus, so it is the safer default.

ESPHome ships more often: 46 stable releases in the past year, against 30 for Sonatype Nexus.

ESPHome is growing faster right now (+257 stars in 30 days).

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