selfhost.directory

The index of self-hostable projects — ranked, categorized and served with live updates.
Own your data and stop giving it to big tech.

exovsYT Zero

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

exoYT Zero
Score76/10052/100
Rank in category#6 of 25 in LLM Inference#53 of 118 in Media Server
GitHub stars48 082669
Stars, last 30 days+447+0
Stable releases, 12 months79
Latest releasev1.0.71 · 23 Apr 20262026.09.9 · 28 Sept 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseApache-2.0Unlicense
Main languagePythonTypescript

Which one should you pick?

exo scores 76/100 against 52/100 for YT Zero, so it is the safer default.

YT Zero ships more often: 9 stable releases in the past year, against 7 for exo.

exo is growing faster right now (+447 stars in 30 days).

Swap a project

Keep exo, compare it with
Keep YT Zero, compare it with