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Mesheryvssearcharr

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

Mesherysearcharr
Score73/10049/100
Rank in category#2 of 7 in Kubernetes#51 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars12 079304
Stars, last 30 days+58+0
Stable releases, 12 months121
Latest releasev1.0.74 · 22 Oct 2026v3.4.0 · 8 Apr 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Main languageTypescriptPython

Which one should you pick?

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

Meshery ships more often: 12 stable releases in the past year, against 1 for searcharr.

Meshery is growing faster right now (+58 stars in 30 days).

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