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livekitvsrecipe-buddy

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

livekitrecipe-buddy
Score80/10044/100
Rank in category#2 of 118 in Media Server#15 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars21 916277
Stars, last 30 days+817+0
Stable releases, 12 months190
Latest releasev1.13.11 · 25 Oct 2026—
SetupAdvancedEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseApache-2.0GPL-3.0
Main languageGoTypescript

Which one should you pick?

livekit scores 80/100 against 44/100 for recipe-buddy, so it is the safer default.

livekit ships more often: 19 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for recipe-buddy.

If you want the quickest setup, recipe-buddy is easier to run; livekit needs more configuration.

livekit is growing faster right now (+817 stars in 30 days).

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