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librephotosvsmilvus

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

librephotosmilvus
Score71/10082/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Photo Management#3 of 40 in Database Management
GitHub stars8 11846 514
Stars, last 30 days+35+271
Stable releases, 12 months1318
Latest release1.5.0 · 28 Oct 2026v2.6.26 · 23 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Main languagePythonGo

Which one should you pick?

milvus scores 82/100 against 71/100 for librephotos, so it is the safer default.

milvus ships more often: 18 stable releases in the past year, against 13 for librephotos.

If you want the quickest setup, librephotos is easier to run; milvus needs more configuration.

milvus is growing faster right now (+271 stars in 30 days).

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