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hestiavsxpipe-webtop

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

hestiaxpipe-webtop
Score68/10070/100
Rank in category#2 of 10 in Control Panel#5 of 23 in Remote Access
GitHub stars4 55214 632
Stars, last 30 days+46+76
Stable releases, 12 months1135
Latest release1.10.5 · 14 Sept 202624.9 · 25 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageShellJava

Which one should you pick?

xpipe-webtop scores 70/100 against 68/100 for hestia, so it is the safer default.

xpipe-webtop ships more often: 35 stable releases in the past year, against 11 for hestia.

If you want the quickest setup, xpipe-webtop is easier to run; hestia needs more configuration.

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