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openITCOCKPITvsStirling-PDF

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

openITCOCKPITStirling-PDF
Score54/10087/100
Rank in category#6 of 19 in Infrastructure Monitoring#1 of 46 in Document Management
GitHub stars40695 350
Stars, last 30 days+6+2 388
Stable releases, 12 months1225
Latest releaseopenITCOCKPIT-5.9.0 · 22 Oct 2026v3.2.2 · 24 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseGPL-3.0Other
Main languagePHPTypescript

Which one should you pick?

Stirling-PDF scores 87/100 against 54/100 for openITCOCKPIT, so it is the safer default.

Stirling-PDF ships more often: 25 stable releases in the past year, against 12 for openITCOCKPIT.

Stirling-PDF is growing faster right now (+2 388 stars in 30 days).

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