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PostalvsUptime-Kuma-Web-API

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

PostalUptime-Kuma-Web-API
Score72/10039/100
Rank in category#3 of 16 in Mail Server#12 of 13 in API
GitHub stars16 900282
Stars, last 30 days+73+0
Stable releases, 12 months30
Latest release3.3.7 · 3 Jun 2026—
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMIT—
Main languageRubyPython

Which one should you pick?

Postal scores 72/100 against 39/100 for Uptime-Kuma-Web-API, so it is the safer default.

Postal ships more often: 3 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Uptime-Kuma-Web-API.

If you want the quickest setup, Uptime-Kuma-Web-API is easier to run; Postal needs more configuration.

Postal is growing faster right now (+73 stars in 30 days).

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