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NATSvsOpenMediaVault

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

NATSOpenMediaVault
Score80/10071/100
Rank in category#2 of 12 in Message Broker#5 of 86 in File Sharing
GitHub stars20 9547 041
Stars, last 30 days+192+74
Stable releases, 12 months180
Latest releasev2.14.9 · 26 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseApache-2.0Other
Main languageGoPHP

Which one should you pick?

NATS scores 80/100 against 71/100 for OpenMediaVault, so it is the safer default.

NATS ships more often: 18 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for OpenMediaVault.

NATS is growing faster right now (+192 stars in 30 days).

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