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Paperless-ngxvsPrometheus Proxmox VE Exporter

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

Paperless-ngxPrometheus Proxmox VE Exporter
Score86/10058/100
Rank in category#3 of 46 in Document Management#11 of 51 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars47 2841 484
Stars, last 30 days+1 293+0
Stable releases, 12 months2610
Latest releasev3.3.4 · 22 Oct 2026v3.10.2 · 26 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languagePythonPython

Which one should you pick?

Paperless-ngx scores 86/100 against 58/100 for Prometheus Proxmox VE Exporter, so it is the safer default.

Paperless-ngx ships more often: 26 stable releases in the past year, against 10 for Prometheus Proxmox VE Exporter.

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

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