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npsvsvanilla-cookbook

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

npsvanilla-cookbook
Score74/10046/100
Rank in category#2 of 31 in Networking#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars34 264158
Stars, last 30 days+29+0
Stable releases, 12 months013
Latest release—v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Main languageGoJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

nps scores 74/100 against 46/100 for vanilla-cookbook, so it is the safer default.

vanilla-cookbook ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for nps.

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

nps is growing faster right now (+29 stars in 30 days).

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