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NextChatvsvito

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

NextChatvito
Score81/10064/100
Rank in category#12 of 124 in AI#4 of 27 in Server Management
GitHub stars88 9163 259
Stars, last 30 days+104+21
Stable releases, 12 months09
Latest release—4.2.1 · 22 Oct 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptPHP

Which one should you pick?

NextChat scores 81/100 against 64/100 for vito, so it is the safer default.

vito ships more often: 9 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for NextChat.

NextChat is growing faster right now (+104 stars in 30 days).

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