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Project N.O.M.A.D.vsvanilla-cookbook

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

Project N.O.M.A.D.vanilla-cookbook
Score85/10046/100
Rank in category#1 of 42 in Knowledge Management#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars41 170158
Stars, last 30 days+2 819+0
Stable releases, 12 months813
Latest releasev1.35.1 · 5 Oct 2026v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0GPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

Project N.O.M.A.D. scores 85/100 against 46/100 for vanilla-cookbook, so it is the safer default.

vanilla-cookbook ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 8 for Project N.O.M.A.D..

If you want the quickest setup, vanilla-cookbook is easier to run; Project N.O.M.A.D. needs more configuration.

Project N.O.M.A.D. is growing faster right now (+2 819 stars in 30 days).

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