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gatusvsZero-K

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

gatusZero-K
Score76/10062/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Uptime Monitoring#2 of 23 in Gaming
GitHub stars12 433877
Stars, last 30 days+288+28
Stable releases, 12 months100
Latest releasev5.38.0 · 28 Oct 2026—
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseApache-2.0GPL-2.0
Main languageGoLua

Which one should you pick?

gatus scores 76/100 against 62/100 for Zero-K, so it is the safer default.

gatus ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Zero-K.

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

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