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paperclipvsPVE-UPS

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

paperclipPVE-UPS
Score88/10051/100
Rank in category#4 of 124 in AI#20 of 51 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars108 443360
Stars, last 30 days+25 619+3
Stable releases, 12 months1010
Latest releasev2026.1012.0 · 12 Oct 2026v4.3.0 · 10 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITMIT
Main languageTypescriptPython

Which one should you pick?

paperclip scores 88/100 against 51/100 for PVE-UPS, so it is the safer default.

paperclip is growing faster right now (+25 619 stars in 30 days).

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