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HomeBridgevsLAN-Orangutan

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

HomeBridgeLAN-Orangutan
Score80/10058/100
Rank in category#2 of 104 in Home Automation#15 of 48 in Network Monitoring
GitHub stars25 5341 139
Stars, last 30 days+32—
Stable releases, 12 months147
Latest releasev2.4.0 · 16 Aug 2026v3.4.2 · 18 Oct 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Main languageTypescriptGo

Which one should you pick?

HomeBridge scores 80/100 against 58/100 for LAN-Orangutan, so it is the safer default.

HomeBridge ships more often: 14 stable releases in the past year, against 7 for LAN-Orangutan.

HomeBridge is growing faster right now (+32 stars in 30 days).

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