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openHABvsSonatype Nexus

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

openHABSonatype Nexus
Score66/10064/100
Rank in category#11 of 104 in Home Automation#2 of 11 in Package Management
GitHub stars1 1602 689
Stars, last 30 days+18+34
Stable releases, 12 months030
Latest release—release-3.97.2-02 · 23 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseEPL-2.0EPL-1.0
Main languageJavaJava

Which one should you pick?

openHAB scores 66/100 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 0 for openHAB.

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