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nginx-proxyvsTidal Echo

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

nginx-proxyTidal Echo
Score76/10047/100
Rank in category#3 of 24 in Reverse Proxy#61 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars19 936329
Stars, last 30 days+18+0
Stable releases, 12 months110
Latest release1.11.6 · 16 Jul 2026—
SetupEasyAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonHTML

Which one should you pick?

nginx-proxy scores 76/100 against 47/100 for Tidal Echo, so it is the safer default.

nginx-proxy ships more often: 11 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Tidal Echo.

If you want the quickest setup, nginx-proxy is easier to run; Tidal Echo needs more configuration.

nginx-proxy is growing faster right now (+18 stars in 30 days).

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