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mbusdvsopenvox

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

mbusdopenvox
Score52/10053/100
Rank in category#3 of 4 in Industrial IoT#5 of 8 in Configuration Management
GitHub stars684199
Stars, last 30 days——
Stable releases, 12 months116
Latest releasev0.5.3 · 7 Apr 20269.2.1 · 23 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseBSD-3-ClauseApache-2.0
Main languageCRuby

Which one should you pick?

openvox scores 53/100 against 52/100 for mbusd, so it is the safer default.

openvox ships more often: 16 stable releases in the past year, against 1 for mbusd.

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

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