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Planevsvanilla-cookbook

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

Planevanilla-cookbook
Score86/10046/100
Rank in category#1 of 45 in Project Management#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars61 626158
Stars, last 30 days+1 824—
Stable releases, 12 months1013
Latest releasev1.4.3 · 28 Oct 2026v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

Plane scores 86/100 against 46/100 for vanilla-cookbook, so it is the safer default.

vanilla-cookbook ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 10 for Plane.

If you want the quickest setup, vanilla-cookbook is easier to run; Plane needs more configuration.

Plane is growing faster right now (+1 824 stars in 30 days).

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