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grafanavsKavita

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

grafanaKavita
Score90/10073/100
Rank in category#1 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#1 of 14 in Comics
GitHub stars77 58211 970
Stars, last 30 days+689+234
Stable releases, 12 months538
Latest releasev13.2.5 · 27 Oct 2026v0.9.1.4 · 2 Sept 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptC#

Which one should you pick?

grafana scores 90/100 against 73/100 for Kavita, so it is the safer default.

grafana ships more often: 53 stable releases in the past year, against 8 for Kavita.

If you want the quickest setup, Kavita is easier to run; grafana needs more configuration.

grafana is growing faster right now (+689 stars in 30 days).

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