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prefectvsFerrite Telegram Server

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

prefectFerrite Telegram Server
Score80/10039/100
Rank in category#5 of 32 in Workflow Automation#88 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars24 099177
Stars, last 30 days+178+0
Stable releases, 12 months170
Latest release2.20.27 · 23 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonC#

Which one should you pick?

prefect scores 80/100 against 39/100 for Ferrite Telegram Server, so it is the safer default.

prefect ships more often: 17 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Ferrite Telegram Server.

If you want the quickest setup, prefect is easier to run; Ferrite Telegram Server needs more configuration.

prefect is growing faster right now (+178 stars in 30 days).

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