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harnessvswebstudio

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

harnesswebstudio
Score80/10069/100
Rank in category#3 of 28 in CI/CD#1 of 6 in Website Builder
GitHub stars38 7489 122
Stars, last 30 days+321+142
Stable releases, 12 months658
Latest releasev2.28.2 · 20 Apr 20260.308.0 · 26 Oct 2026
SetupEasyAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageGoTypescript

Which one should you pick?

harness scores 80/100 against 69/100 for webstudio, so it is the safer default.

webstudio ships more often: 58 stable releases in the past year, against 6 for harness.

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

harness is growing faster right now (+321 stars in 30 days).

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