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

multicaTraceRoot
Score84/10058/100
Rank in category#10 of 124 in AI#11 of 51 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars54 2151 131
Stars, last 30 days+2 907+19
Stable releases, 12 months8710
Latest releasev0.7.1 · 27 Oct 2026v1.3.3 · 27 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseOtherOther
Main languageGoTypescript

Which one should you pick?

multica scores 84/100 against 58/100 for TraceRoot, so it is the safer default.

multica ships more often: 87 stable releases in the past year, against 10 for TraceRoot.

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

multica is growing faster right now (+2 907 stars in 30 days).

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