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nextcloud-aio-mastercontainervsZulip

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

nextcloud-aio-mastercontainerZulip
Score76/10082/100
Rank in category#2 of 27 in File Sharing & Collaboration#1 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars10 74426 133
Stars, last 30 days+264+190
Stable releases, 12 months376
Latest releasehelm-chart-14.4.2 · 28 Oct 202612.3 · 21 Sept 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languagePHPPython

Which one should you pick?

Zulip scores 82/100 against 76/100 for nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer, so it is the safer default.

nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer ships more often: 37 stable releases in the past year, against 6 for Zulip.

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

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