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open-computevsPeerTube

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

open-computePeerTube
Score55/10075/100
Rank in category#3 of 7 in Serverless#1 of 3 in Video Hosting
GitHub stars2 42515 376
Stars, last 30 days+25+44
Stable releases, 12 months913
Latest releasev0.3.0 · 10 Oct 2026v8.3.2 · 26 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageRustTypescript

Which one should you pick?

PeerTube scores 75/100 against 55/100 for open-compute, so it is the safer default.

PeerTube ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 9 for open-compute.

If you want the quickest setup, open-compute is easier to run; PeerTube needs more configuration.

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