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Jitsi MeetvsNGINX

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

Jitsi MeetNGINX
Score79/10084/100
Rank in category#1 of 33 in Communication#2 of 12 in Web Servers
GitHub stars30 16032 000
Stars, last 30 days+173+276
Stable releases, 12 months021
Latest release—release-1.31.8 · 21 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0BSD-2-Clause
Main languageTypescriptC

Which one should you pick?

NGINX scores 84/100 against 79/100 for Jitsi Meet, so it is the safer default.

NGINX ships more often: 21 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Jitsi Meet.

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