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MintHCMvsprometheus

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

MintHCMprometheus
Score51/10090/100
Rank in category#6 of 9 in Human Resource Management (HRM)#1 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars43966 845
Stars, last 30 days—+649
Stable releases, 12 months816
Latest release4.3.5 · 23 Oct 2026v3.15.1 · 21 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languagePHPGo

Which one should you pick?

prometheus scores 90/100 against 51/100 for MintHCM, so it is the safer default.

prometheus ships more often: 16 stable releases in the past year, against 8 for MintHCM.

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

prometheus is growing faster right now (+649 stars in 30 days).

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