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nzbhydra2vsWorld Monitor

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

nzbhydra2World Monitor
Score60/10086/100
Rank in category#2 of 6 in Feed Aggregator#5 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars1 74289 719
Stars, last 30 days+17+2 430
Stable releases, 12 months2317
Latest releasev9.2.0 · 28 Oct 2026v2.11.6 · 25 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseGPL-3.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageJavaScriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

World Monitor scores 86/100 against 60/100 for nzbhydra2, so it is the safer default.

nzbhydra2 ships more often: 23 stable releases in the past year, against 17 for World Monitor.

If you want the quickest setup, nzbhydra2 is easier to run; World Monitor needs more configuration.

World Monitor is growing faster right now (+2 430 stars in 30 days).

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