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grimmoryvshotio/plex

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

grimmoryhotio/plex
Score69/10046/100
Rank in category#2 of 12 in Book Management#78 of 118 in Media Server
GitHub stars4 62540
Stars, last 30 days+200+0
Stable releases, 12 months190
Latest releasev3.5.0 · 21 Sept 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Main languageJavaDockerfile

Which one should you pick?

grimmory scores 69/100 against 46/100 for hotio/plex, so it is the safer default.

grimmory ships more often: 19 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for hotio/plex.

grimmory is growing faster right now (+200 stars in 30 days).

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