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HarborvsTidal Echo

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

HarborTidal Echo
Score80/10047/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Container Registry#61 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars29 639329
Stars, last 30 days+185+0
Stable releases, 12 months100
Latest releasev2.14.6 · 23 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageGoHTML

Which one should you pick?

Harbor scores 80/100 against 47/100 for Tidal Echo, so it is the safer default.

Harbor ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Tidal Echo.

If you want the quickest setup, Harbor is easier to run; Tidal Echo needs more configuration.

Harbor is growing faster right now (+185 stars in 30 days).

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