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portabasevsSeaweedFS

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

portabaseSeaweedFS
Score60/10081/100
Rank in category#3 of 15 in Backup Management#1 of 11 in Cloud Storage
GitHub stars1 86035 784
Stars, last 30 days+95+859
Stable releases, 12 months6428
Latest release1.35.0 · 27 Oct 20264.51 · 25 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptGo

Which one should you pick?

SeaweedFS scores 81/100 against 60/100 for portabase, so it is the safer default.

portabase ships more often: 64 stable releases in the past year, against 28 for SeaweedFS.

SeaweedFS is growing faster right now (+859 stars in 30 days).

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