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MacOSvsSonatype Nexus

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

MacOSSonatype Nexus
Score76/10064/100
Rank in category#2 of 15 in Virtualization#2 of 11 in Package Management
GitHub stars21 6892 689
Stars, last 30 days+115+34
Stable releases, 12 months1830
Latest releasev3.12 · 21 Aug 2026release-3.97.2-02 · 23 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITEPL-1.0
Main languageShellJava

Which one should you pick?

MacOS scores 76/100 against 64/100 for Sonatype Nexus, so it is the safer default.

Sonatype Nexus ships more often: 30 stable releases in the past year, against 18 for MacOS.

MacOS is growing faster right now (+115 stars in 30 days).

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