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jumpservervsWriteFreely

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

jumpserverWriteFreely
Score77/10065/100
Rank in category#1 of 19 in Identity & Auth#2 of 24 in Blogging
GitHub stars31 8485 276
Stars, last 30 days+256+19
Stable releases, 12 months143
Latest releasev3.10.24 · 27 Oct 2026v0.17.2 · 10 Aug 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseGPL-3.0AGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonGo

Which one should you pick?

jumpserver scores 77/100 against 65/100 for WriteFreely, so it is the safer default.

jumpserver ships more often: 14 stable releases in the past year, against 3 for WriteFreely.

jumpserver is growing faster right now (+256 stars in 30 days).

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