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

multicavanilla-cookbook
Score84/10046/100
Rank in category#10 of 125 in AI#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars54 130158
Stars, last 30 days+2 888—
Stable releases, 12 months8713
Latest releasev0.7.1 · 27 Oct 2026v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherGPL-3.0
Main languageGoJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

multica scores 84/100 against 46/100 for vanilla-cookbook, so it is the safer default.

multica ships more often: 87 stable releases in the past year, against 13 for vanilla-cookbook.

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

multica is growing faster right now (+2 888 stars in 30 days).

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