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filestashvsSonatype Nexus

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

filestashSonatype Nexus
Score70/10064/100
Rank in category#3 of 27 in File Sharing & Collaboration#2 of 11 in Package Management
GitHub stars14 8352 689
Stars, last 30 days+124+34
Stable releases, 12 months030
Latest release—release-3.97.2-02 · 23 Oct 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0EPL-1.0
Main languageGoJava

Which one should you pick?

filestash scores 70/100 against 64/100 for Sonatype Nexus, so it is the safer default.

Sonatype Nexus ships more often: 30 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for filestash.

If you want the quickest setup, filestash is easier to run; Sonatype Nexus needs more configuration.

filestash is growing faster right now (+124 stars in 30 days).

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