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grafanavsPaperless-ngx

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

grafanaPaperless-ngx
Score90/10086/100
Rank in category#1 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#3 of 46 in Document Management
GitHub stars77 57547 231
Stars, last 30 days+701+1 275
Stable releases, 12 months5326
Latest releasev13.2.5 · 27 Oct 2026v3.3.4 · 22 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptPython

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grafana scores 90/100 against 86/100 for Paperless-ngx, so it is the safer default.

grafana ships more often: 53 stable releases in the past year, against 26 for Paperless-ngx.

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