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excalidrawvsMeshery

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

excalidrawMeshery
Score91/10073/100
Rank in category#1 of 9 in Whiteboarding#2 of 7 in Kubernetes
GitHub stars134 74512 072
Stars, last 30 days+2 003+51
Stable releases, 12 months112
Latest releasev0.18.1 · 21 Apr 2026v1.0.74 · 22 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

excalidraw scores 91/100 against 73/100 for Meshery, so it is the safer default.

Meshery ships more often: 12 stable releases in the past year, against 1 for excalidraw.

excalidraw is growing faster right now (+2 003 stars in 30 days).

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