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Mayan EDMSvsvanilla-cookbook

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

Mayan EDMSvanilla-cookbook
Score58/10046/100
Rank in category#18 of 46 in Document Management#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars672158
Stars, last 30 days+0+0
Stable releases, 12 months013
Latest release—v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseGPL-2.0-onlyGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

Mayan EDMS scores 58/100 against 46/100 for vanilla-cookbook, so it is the safer default.

vanilla-cookbook ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Mayan EDMS.

If you want the quickest setup, vanilla-cookbook is easier to run; Mayan EDMS needs more configuration.

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