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nocobasevsvanilla-cookbook

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

nocobasevanilla-cookbook
Score78/10046/100
Rank in category#2 of 4 in No-code Platforms#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars24 772158
Stars, last 30 days+426+0
Stable releases, 12 months7613
Latest releasev2.2.36 · 29 Oct 2026v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

nocobase scores 78/100 against 46/100 for vanilla-cookbook, so it is the safer default.

nocobase ships more often: 76 stable releases in the past year, against 13 for vanilla-cookbook.

If you want the quickest setup, vanilla-cookbook is easier to run; nocobase needs more configuration.

nocobase is growing faster right now (+426 stars in 30 days).

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