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nextcloud-aio-mastercontainervspolar

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

nextcloud-aio-mastercontainerpolar
Score76/10071/100
Rank in category#2 of 27 in File Sharing & Collaboration#1 of 13 in Billing
GitHub stars10 74810 436
Stars, last 30 days+264+157
Stable releases, 12 months371
Latest releasehelm-chart-14.4.2 · 28 Oct 2026@polar-sh/cli@3.0.0 · 16 Oct 2026
SetupEasyAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languagePHPPython

Which one should you pick?

nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer scores 76/100 against 71/100 for polar, so it is the safer default.

nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer ships more often: 37 stable releases in the past year, against 1 for polar.

If you want the quickest setup, nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer is easier to run; polar needs more configuration.

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