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MTranServervsrpi-mqtt-monitor

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

MTranServerrpi-mqtt-monitor
Score63/10051/100
Rank in category#4 of 9 in Translation#58 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars4 731328
Stars, last 30 days+12+0
Stable releases, 12 months98
Latest releasev5.1.0 · 16 Oct 20261.4.3 · 18 Jun 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseApache-2.0GPL-3.0
Main languageC++Python

Which one should you pick?

MTranServer scores 63/100 against 51/100 for rpi-mqtt-monitor, so it is the safer default.

MTranServer ships more often: 9 stable releases in the past year, against 8 for rpi-mqtt-monitor.

If you want the quickest setup, MTranServer is easier to run; rpi-mqtt-monitor needs more configuration.

MTranServer is growing faster right now (+12 stars in 30 days).

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