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Mesheryvsnamer

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

Mesherynamer
Score73/10049/100
Rank in category#2 of 7 in Kubernetes#19 of 34 in File Management
GitHub stars12 073332
Stars, last 30 days+52+0
Stable releases, 12 months124
Latest releasev1.0.74 · 22 Oct 2026v1.19.20 · 25 May 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Main languageTypescriptPython

Which one should you pick?

Meshery scores 73/100 against 49/100 for namer, so it is the safer default.

Meshery ships more often: 12 stable releases in the past year, against 4 for namer.

Meshery is growing faster right now (+52 stars in 30 days).

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