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Paperless-ngxvsPlex-Data-Collector-For-InfluxDB

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

Paperless-ngxPlex-Data-Collector-For-InfluxDB
Score86/10036/100
Rank in category#3 of 46 in Document Management#94 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars47 284164
Stars, last 30 days+1 293+0
Stable releases, 12 months260
Latest releasev3.3.4 · 22 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseGPL-3.0—
Main languagePythonPython

Which one should you pick?

Paperless-ngx scores 86/100 against 36/100 for Plex-Data-Collector-For-InfluxDB, so it is the safer default.

Paperless-ngx ships more often: 26 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Plex-Data-Collector-For-InfluxDB.

Paperless-ngx is growing faster right now (+1 293 stars in 30 days).

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