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Postalvssupabase-automated-self-host

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

Postalsupabase-automated-self-host
Score72/10048/100
Rank in category#3 of 16 in Mail Server#13 of 15 in Backend as a Service
GitHub stars16 899506
Stars, last 30 days+72+0
Stable releases, 12 months30
Latest release3.3.7 · 3 Jun 2026—
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Main languageRubyShell

Which one should you pick?

Postal scores 72/100 against 48/100 for supabase-automated-self-host, so it is the safer default.

Postal ships more often: 3 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for supabase-automated-self-host.

If you want the quickest setup, supabase-automated-self-host is easier to run; Postal needs more configuration.

Postal is growing faster right now (+72 stars in 30 days).

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