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MailcowvsUmami

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

MailcowUmami
Score77/10085/100
Rank in category#2 of 106 in Email#1 of 21 in Web analytics
GitHub stars13 71539 757
Stars, last 30 days+217+776
Stable releases, 12 months1613
Latest release2026-10 · 21 Oct 2026v3.4.1 · 23 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseGPL-3.0MIT
Main languageJavaScriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

Umami scores 85/100 against 77/100 for Mailcow, so it is the safer default.

Mailcow ships more often: 16 stable releases in the past year, against 13 for Umami.

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

Umami is growing faster right now (+776 stars in 30 days).

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