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mitmproxyvsWriteFreely

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

mitmproxyWriteFreely
Score86/10065/100
Rank in category#1 of 48 in Network Monitoring#2 of 24 in Blogging
GitHub stars46 4515 276
Stars, last 30 days+1 316+19
Stable releases, 12 months53
Latest releasev12.3.1 · 25 Oct 2026v0.17.2 · 10 Aug 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonGo

Which one should you pick?

mitmproxy scores 86/100 against 65/100 for WriteFreely, so it is the safer default.

mitmproxy ships more often: 5 stable releases in the past year, against 3 for WriteFreely.

mitmproxy is growing faster right now (+1 316 stars in 30 days).

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