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netmonvsPaddleOCR

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

netmonPaddleOCR
Score40/10085/100
Rank in category#40 of 48 in Network Monitoring#1 of 4 in OCR
GitHub stars28891 948
Stars, last 30 days+1+507
Stable releases, 12 months07
Latest release—v3.7.0 · 11 Jun 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Main languagePythonPython

Which one should you pick?

PaddleOCR scores 85/100 against 40/100 for netmon, so it is the safer default.

PaddleOCR ships more often: 7 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for netmon.

PaddleOCR is growing faster right now (+507 stars in 30 days).

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