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Nextcloud Officevspolar

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

Nextcloud Officepolar
Score58/10071/100
Rank in category#4 of 6 in Office Suites#1 of 13 in Billing
GitHub stars45910 436
Stars, last 30 days+5+157
Stable releases, 12 months311
Latest releasev12.0.1 · 29 Sept 2026@polar-sh/cli@3.0.0 · 16 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageJavaScriptPython

Which one should you pick?

polar scores 71/100 against 58/100 for Nextcloud Office, so it is the safer default.

Nextcloud Office ships more often: 31 stable releases in the past year, against 1 for polar.

If you want the quickest setup, Nextcloud Office is easier to run; polar needs more configuration.

polar is growing faster right now (+157 stars in 30 days).

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