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excalidrawvsSeaweedFS

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

excalidrawSeaweedFS
Score91/10081/100
Rank in category#1 of 9 in Whiteboarding#1 of 11 in Cloud Storage
GitHub stars134 75035 794
Stars, last 30 days+2 008+869
Stable releases, 12 months128
Latest releasev0.18.1 · 21 Apr 20264.51 · 25 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptGo

Which one should you pick?

excalidraw scores 91/100 against 81/100 for SeaweedFS, so it is the safer default.

SeaweedFS ships more often: 28 stable releases in the past year, against 1 for excalidraw.

excalidraw is growing faster right now (+2 008 stars in 30 days).

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