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illa-buildervsOtari

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

illa-builderOtari
Score67/10056/100
Rank in category#3 of 17 in Low Code#14 of 39 in API Gateway
GitHub stars12 336751
Stars, last 30 days+12+0
Stable releases, 12 months010
Latest release—v0.33.0 · 27 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptPython

Which one should you pick?

illa-builder scores 67/100 against 56/100 for Otari, so it is the safer default.

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

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

illa-builder is growing faster right now (+12 stars in 30 days).

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