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prefectvsrpi-mqtt-monitor

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

prefectrpi-mqtt-monitor
Score80/10051/100
Rank in category#5 of 32 in Workflow Automation#58 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars24 095328
Stars, last 30 days+183—
Stable releases, 12 months178
Latest release2.20.27 · 23 Oct 20261.4.3 · 18 Jun 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseApache-2.0GPL-3.0
Main languagePythonPython

Which one should you pick?

prefect scores 80/100 against 51/100 for rpi-mqtt-monitor, so it is the safer default.

prefect ships more often: 17 stable releases in the past year, against 8 for rpi-mqtt-monitor.

prefect is growing faster right now (+183 stars in 30 days).

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