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OpenMESvsSeaweedFS

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

OpenMESSeaweedFS
Score47/10081/100
Rank in category#4 of 4 in Industrial IoT#1 of 11 in Cloud Storage
GitHub stars17835 794
Stars, last 30 days—+869
Stable releases, 12 months1028
Latest releasev0.27.0 · 14 Oct 20264.51 · 25 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languagePHPGo

Which one should you pick?

SeaweedFS scores 81/100 against 47/100 for OpenMES, so it is the safer default.

SeaweedFS ships more often: 28 stable releases in the past year, against 10 for OpenMES.

SeaweedFS is growing faster right now (+869 stars in 30 days).

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