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paymentervsrustdesk

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

paymenterrustdesk
Score68/10092/100
Rank in category#3 of 13 in Billing#1 of 22 in Remote Desktop
GitHub stars2 811127 412
Stars, last 30 days+500+2 940
Stable releases, 12 months147
Latest releasev1.5.9 · 2 Oct 20261.5.0 · 25 Sept 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languagePHPRust

Which one should you pick?

rustdesk scores 92/100 against 68/100 for paymenter, so it is the safer default.

paymenter ships more often: 14 stable releases in the past year, against 7 for rustdesk.

rustdesk is growing faster right now (+2 940 stars in 30 days).

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