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PaddleOCRvsProxmox Kubernetes Engine

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

PaddleOCRProxmox Kubernetes Engine
Score85/10041/100
Rank in category#1 of 4 in OCR#10 of 11 in Container Orchestration
GitHub stars91 912244
Stars, last 30 days+471+0
Stable releases, 12 months87
Latest releasev3.7.0 · 11 Jun 2026v0.0.7 · 13 Sept 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languagePython—

Which one should you pick?

PaddleOCR scores 85/100 against 41/100 for Proxmox Kubernetes Engine, so it is the safer default.

PaddleOCR ships more often: 8 stable releases in the past year, against 7 for Proxmox Kubernetes Engine.

If you want the quickest setup, PaddleOCR is easier to run; Proxmox Kubernetes Engine needs more configuration.

PaddleOCR is growing faster right now (+471 stars in 30 days).

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