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PgHerovsSonatype Nexus

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

PgHeroSonatype Nexus
Score66/10064/100
Rank in category#1 of 2 in Performance monitoring#2 of 11 in Package Management
GitHub stars8 9422 689
Stars, last 30 days+12+34
Stable releases, 12 months030
Latest release—release-3.97.2-02 · 23 Oct 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITEPL-1.0
Main languageRubyJava

Which one should you pick?

PgHero scores 66/100 against 64/100 for Sonatype Nexus, so it is the safer default.

Sonatype Nexus ships more often: 30 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for PgHero.

If you want the quickest setup, PgHero is easier to run; Sonatype Nexus needs more configuration.

Sonatype Nexus is growing faster right now (+34 stars in 30 days).

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