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hestiavsLabTether

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

hestiaLabTether
Score68/10051/100
Rank in category#2 of 10 in Control Panel#8 of 19 in Infrastructure Monitoring
GitHub stars4 552234
Stars, last 30 days+46—
Stable releases, 12 months115
Latest release1.10.5 · 14 Sept 2026v1.4.0 · 17 Apr 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageShellGo

Which one should you pick?

hestia scores 68/100 against 51/100 for LabTether, so it is the safer default.

hestia ships more often: 11 stable releases in the past year, against 5 for LabTether.

hestia is growing faster right now (+46 stars in 30 days).

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