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

Novuruptime
Score76/10045/100
Rank in category#2 of 19 in Notifications#17 of 19 in Infrastructure Monitoring
GitHub stars40 220213
Stars, last 30 days+171—
Stable releases, 12 months120
Latest release@novu/framework@v2.14.0 · 28 Sept 2026—
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseOtherAGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptShell

Which one should you pick?

Novu scores 76/100 against 45/100 for ruptime, so it is the safer default.

Novu ships more often: 12 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for ruptime.

If you want the quickest setup, ruptime is easier to run; Novu needs more configuration.

Novu is growing faster right now (+171 stars in 30 days).

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