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InvokeAIvsvanilla-cookbook

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

InvokeAIvanilla-cookbook
Score82/10046/100
Rank in category#2 of 11 in Image Generation#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars28 907158
Stars, last 30 days+621+0
Stable releases, 12 months1313
Latest releasev6.14.2 · 27 Sept 2026v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0GPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

InvokeAI scores 82/100 against 46/100 for vanilla-cookbook, so it is the safer default.

InvokeAI is growing faster right now (+621 stars in 30 days).

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