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OctoBotvsSeaweedFS

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

OctoBotSeaweedFS
Score69/10081/100
Rank in category#6 of 42 in Cryptocurrency#1 of 11 in Cloud Storage
GitHub stars6 87235 794
Stars, last 30 days+257+833
Stable releases, 12 months528
Latest release2.1.1 · 30 Mar 20264.51 · 25 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languagePythonGo

Which one should you pick?

SeaweedFS scores 81/100 against 69/100 for OctoBot, so it is the safer default.

SeaweedFS ships more often: 28 stable releases in the past year, against 5 for OctoBot.

SeaweedFS is growing faster right now (+833 stars in 30 days).

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