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OpenDesignvsSonatype Nexus

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

OpenDesignSonatype Nexus
Score83/10064/100
Rank in category#1 of 7 in Design#2 of 11 in Package Management
GitHub stars104 7902 691
Stars, last 30 days+1 959+36
Stable releases, 12 months1030
Latest releaseopen-design-v0.26.1 · 22 Oct 2026release-3.97.2-02 · 23 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0EPL-1.0
Main languageTypescriptJava

Which one should you pick?

OpenDesign scores 83/100 against 64/100 for Sonatype Nexus, so it is the safer default.

Sonatype Nexus ships more often: 30 stable releases in the past year, against 10 for OpenDesign.

OpenDesign is growing faster right now (+1 959 stars in 30 days).

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