selfhost.directory

The index of self-hostable projects — ranked, categorized and served with live updates.
Own your data and stop giving it to big tech.

OpenMESvsShinobi

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

OpenMESShinobi
Score47/10066/100
Rank in category#4 of 4 in Industrial IoT#3 of 24 in Video Surveillance
GitHub stars178—
Stars, last 30 days——
Stable releases, 12 months100
Latest releasev0.27.0 · 14 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0AGPL-3.0
Main languagePHP—

Which one should you pick?

Shinobi scores 66/100 against 47/100 for OpenMES, so it is the safer default.

OpenMES ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Shinobi.

If you want the quickest setup, OpenMES is easier to run; Shinobi needs more configuration.

Swap a project

Keep OpenMES, compare it with
Keep Shinobi, compare it with