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librephotosvsPelican Panel

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

librephotosPelican Panel
Score71/10064/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Photo Management#13 of 62 in Game Servers
GitHub stars8 1182 413
Stars, last 30 days+35+83
Stable releases, 12 months130
Latest release1.5.0 · 28 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonPHP

Which one should you pick?

librephotos scores 71/100 against 64/100 for Pelican Panel, so it is the safer default.

librephotos ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Pelican Panel.

Pelican Panel is growing faster right now (+83 stars in 30 days).

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