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PVE-UPSvsTube Archivist

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

PVE-UPSTube Archivist
Score51/10072/100
Rank in category#21 of 51 in Monitoring & observability#7 of 118 in Media Server
GitHub stars3628 553
Stars, last 30 days+5+84
Stable releases, 12 months106
Latest releasev4.3.0 · 10 Oct 2026v0.6.0 · 25 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonPython

Which one should you pick?

Tube Archivist scores 72/100 against 51/100 for PVE-UPS, so it is the safer default.

PVE-UPS ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 6 for Tube Archivist.

If you want the quickest setup, PVE-UPS is easier to run; Tube Archivist needs more configuration.

Tube Archivist is growing faster right now (+84 stars in 30 days).

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