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Gogsvsvanilla-cookbook

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

Gogsvanilla-cookbook
Score80/10046/100
Rank in category#2 of 14 in Code Hosting#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars47 907158
Stars, last 30 days+83—
Stable releases, 12 months613
Latest releaselatest-commit-build · 17 Jun 2026v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Main languageGoJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

Gogs scores 80/100 against 46/100 for vanilla-cookbook, so it is the safer default.

vanilla-cookbook ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 6 for Gogs.

Gogs is growing faster right now (+83 stars in 30 days).

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