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NGINXvsPlate-Minder

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

NGINXPlate-Minder
Score84/10038/100
Rank in category#2 of 12 in Web Servers#90 of 104 in Home Automation
GitHub stars32 006163
Stars, last 30 days+282+0
Stable releases, 12 months210
Latest releaserelease-1.31.8 · 21 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseBSD-2-ClauseMIT
Main languageCJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

NGINX scores 84/100 against 38/100 for Plate-Minder, so it is the safer default.

NGINX ships more often: 21 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Plate-Minder.

NGINX is growing faster right now (+282 stars in 30 days).

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