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openITCOCKPITvspaperclip

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

openITCOCKPITpaperclip
Score54/10088/100
Rank in category#6 of 19 in Infrastructure Monitoring#4 of 124 in AI
GitHub stars402108 406
Stars, last 30 days+2+25 582
Stable releases, 12 months1210
Latest releaseopenITCOCKPIT-5.9.0 · 22 Oct 2026v2026.1012.0 · 12 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseGPL-3.0MIT
Main languagePHPTypescript

Which one should you pick?

paperclip scores 88/100 against 54/100 for openITCOCKPIT, so it is the safer default.

openITCOCKPIT ships more often: 12 stable releases in the past year, against 10 for paperclip.

paperclip is growing faster right now (+25 582 stars in 30 days).

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