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pretalxvsprivate-gpt

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

pretalxprivate-gpt
Score62/10081/100
Rank in category#2 of 3 in Conference Management#1 of 7 in LLM Integration
GitHub stars95457 615
Stars, last 30 days+8+86
Stable releases, 12 months72
Latest releasev2026.2.1 · 8 Jul 2026v1.0.1 · 18 Jun 2026
SetupAdvancedEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseOtherApache-2.0
Main languagePythonPython

Which one should you pick?

private-gpt scores 81/100 against 62/100 for pretalx, so it is the safer default.

pretalx ships more often: 7 stable releases in the past year, against 2 for private-gpt.

If you want the quickest setup, private-gpt is easier to run; pretalx needs more configuration.

private-gpt is growing faster right now (+86 stars in 30 days).

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