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LibrumvsNGINX

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

LibrumNGINX
Score60/10084/100
Rank in category#5 of 7 in E-book Management#2 of 12 in Web Servers
GitHub stars5 31831 998
Stars, last 30 days+-1+277
Stable releases, 12 months021
Latest release—release-1.31.8 · 21 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseGPL-3.0BSD-2-Clause
Main languageCC

Which one should you pick?

NGINX scores 84/100 against 60/100 for Librum, so it is the safer default.

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

NGINX is growing faster right now (+277 stars in 30 days).

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