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open-computevsSpinifex

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

open-computeSpinifex
Score55/10047/100
Rank in category#3 of 7 in Serverless#2 of 2 in Cloud Native
GitHub stars2 573403
Stars, last 30 days+173+2
Stable releases, 12 months95
Latest releasev0.3.0 · 10 Oct 2026v1.23.0 · 27 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageRustGo

Which one should you pick?

open-compute scores 55/100 against 47/100 for Spinifex, so it is the safer default.

open-compute ships more often: 9 stable releases in the past year, against 5 for Spinifex.

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

open-compute is growing faster right now (+173 stars in 30 days).

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