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illa-buildervspolar

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

illa-builderpolar
Score67/10071/100
Rank in category#3 of 17 in Low Code#1 of 13 in Billing
GitHub stars12 33610 436
Stars, last 30 days+12+157
Stable releases, 12 months01
Latest release—@polar-sh/cli@3.0.0 · 16 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptPython

Which one should you pick?

polar scores 71/100 against 67/100 for illa-builder, so it is the safer default.

polar ships more often: 1 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for illa-builder.

polar is growing faster right now (+157 stars in 30 days).

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