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FliptvsSonatype Nexus

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

FliptSonatype Nexus
Score66/10064/100
Rank in category#4 of 8 in Feature Flags#2 of 11 in Package Management
GitHub stars4 9322 691
Stars, last 30 days+21+36
Stable releases, 12 months1530
Latest releasev1.62.0 · 23 Oct 2026release-3.97.2-02 · 23 Oct 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherEPL-1.0
Main languageGoJava

Which one should you pick?

Flipt scores 66/100 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 15 for Flipt.

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

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