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open-computevsShinobi

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

open-computeShinobi
Score55/10066/100
Rank in category#3 of 7 in Serverless#3 of 24 in Video Surveillance
GitHub stars2 400—
Stars, last 30 days——
Stable releases, 12 months90
Latest releasev0.3.0 · 10 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageRust—

Which one should you pick?

Shinobi scores 66/100 against 55/100 for open-compute, so it is the safer default.

open-compute ships more often: 9 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Shinobi.

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

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