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gatusvsThumbor

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

gatusThumbor
Score76/10072/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Uptime Monitoring#2 of 13 in Image Processing
GitHub stars12 43310 528
Stars, last 30 days+288+7
Stable releases, 12 months101
Latest releasev5.38.0 · 28 Oct 20267.8.0 · 30 May 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Main languageGoPython

Which one should you pick?

gatus scores 76/100 against 72/100 for Thumbor, so it is the safer default.

gatus ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 1 for Thumbor.

gatus is growing faster right now (+288 stars in 30 days).

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