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exovsUVdesk Helpdesk

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

exoUVdesk Helpdesk
Score76/10069/100
Rank in category#6 of 25 in LLM Inference#2 of 14 in Customer Support
GitHub stars48 09819 638
Stars, last 30 days+463+26
Stable releases, 12 months70
Latest releasev1.0.71 · 23 Apr 2026—
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseApache-2.0OSL-3.0
Main languagePythonCSS

Which one should you pick?

exo scores 76/100 against 69/100 for UVdesk Helpdesk, so it is the safer default.

exo ships more often: 7 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for UVdesk Helpdesk.

If you want the quickest setup, exo is easier to run; UVdesk Helpdesk needs more configuration.

exo is growing faster right now (+463 stars in 30 days).

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