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MediaMTXvsprometheus-qbittorrent-exporter

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

MediaMTXprometheus-qbittorrent-exporter
Score79/10047/100
Rank in category#3 of 118 in Media Server#70 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars20 542197
Stars, last 30 days+290+0
Stable releases, 12 months183
Latest releasev1.21.3 · 25 Oct 20261.8.0 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Main languageGoPython

Which one should you pick?

MediaMTX scores 79/100 against 47/100 for prometheus-qbittorrent-exporter, so it is the safer default.

MediaMTX ships more often: 18 stable releases in the past year, against 3 for prometheus-qbittorrent-exporter.

MediaMTX is growing faster right now (+290 stars in 30 days).

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