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maxunvsvelld

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

maxunvelld
Score74/10045/100
Rank in category#4 of 16 in Web Scraping#39 of 46 in Backup
GitHub stars18 079467
Stars, last 30 days+518+0
Stable releases, 12 months170
Latest releasev0.1.0 · 25 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0MIT
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

maxun scores 74/100 against 45/100 for velld, so it is the safer default.

maxun ships more often: 17 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for velld.

maxun is growing faster right now (+518 stars in 30 days).

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