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illa-buildervsOpenMES

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

illa-builderOpenMES
Score67/10047/100
Rank in category#3 of 17 in Low Code#4 of 4 in Industrial IoT
GitHub stars12 337178
Stars, last 30 days+15—
Stable releases, 12 months010
Latest release—v0.27.0 · 14 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptPHP

Which one should you pick?

illa-builder scores 67/100 against 47/100 for OpenMES, so it is the safer default.

OpenMES ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for illa-builder.

If you want the quickest setup, OpenMES is easier to run; illa-builder needs more configuration.

illa-builder is growing faster right now (+15 stars in 30 days).

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