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MailcowvsTryton

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

MailcowTryton
Score77/10068/100
Rank in category#2 of 106 in Email#3 of 14 in ERP
GitHub stars13 715—
Stars, last 30 days+205—
Stable releases, 12 months160
Latest release2026-10 · 21 Oct 2026—
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Main languageJavaScript—

Which one should you pick?

Mailcow scores 77/100 against 68/100 for Tryton, so it is the safer default.

Mailcow ships more often: 16 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Tryton.

Mailcow is growing faster right now (+205 stars in 30 days).

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