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excalidrawvsSOLECTRUS

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

excalidrawSOLECTRUS
Score91/10051/100
Rank in category#1 of 9 in Whiteboarding#20 of 51 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars134 753166
Stars, last 30 days+1 920+0
Stable releases, 12 months112
Latest releasev0.18.1 · 21 Apr 2026v1.3.4 · 12 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptRuby

Which one should you pick?

excalidraw scores 91/100 against 51/100 for SOLECTRUS, so it is the safer default.

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

excalidraw is growing faster right now (+1 920 stars in 30 days).

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