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MeshSensevsSonatype Nexus

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

MeshSenseSonatype Nexus
Score51/10064/100
Rank in category#21 of 48 in Network Monitoring#2 of 11 in Package Management
GitHub stars5432 691
Stars, last 30 days+0+36
Stable releases, 12 months030
Latest release—release-3.97.2-02 · 23 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseGPL-3.0EPL-1.0
Main languageTypescriptJava

Which one should you pick?

Sonatype Nexus scores 64/100 against 51/100 for MeshSense, so it is the safer default.

Sonatype Nexus ships more often: 30 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for MeshSense.

Sonatype Nexus is growing faster right now (+36 stars in 30 days).

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