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illa-buildervspretalx

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

illa-builderpretalx
Score67/10062/100
Rank in category#3 of 17 in Low Code#2 of 3 in Conference Management
GitHub stars12 336954
Stars, last 30 days+12+8
Stable releases, 12 months07
Latest release—v2026.2.1 · 8 Jul 2026
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseApache-2.0Other
Main languageTypescriptPython

Which one should you pick?

illa-builder scores 67/100 against 62/100 for pretalx, so it is the safer default.

pretalx ships more often: 7 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for illa-builder.

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