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NezhavsRocket.Chat

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

NezhaRocket.Chat
Score72/10082/100
Rank in category#15 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#1 of 13 in Instant Messaging
GitHub stars10 37746 348
Stars, last 30 days+45+187
Stable releases, 12 months4036
Latest releasev2.6.0 · 27 Oct 20268.5.4 · 16 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseWTFPLOther
Main languageGoTypescript

Which one should you pick?

Rocket.Chat scores 82/100 against 72/100 for Nezha, so it is the safer default.

Nezha ships more often: 40 stable releases in the past year, against 36 for Rocket.Chat.

Rocket.Chat is growing faster right now (+187 stars in 30 days).

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