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Librumvsrustypaste

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

Librumrustypaste
Score60/10056/100
Rank in category#5 of 7 in E-book Management#32 of 86 in File Sharing
GitHub stars5 3181 214
Stars, last 30 days+-2+7
Stable releases, 12 months03
Latest release—v0.18.1 · 7 Sept 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseGPL-3.0MIT
Main languageCRust

Which one should you pick?

Librum scores 60/100 against 56/100 for rustypaste, so it is the safer default.

rustypaste ships more often: 3 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Librum.

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

rustypaste is growing faster right now (+7 stars in 30 days).

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