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quassel-webservervsZulip

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

quassel-webserverZulip
Score43/10082/100
Rank in category#79 of 110 in Chat#1 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars21126 133
Stars, last 30 days—+190
Stable releases, 12 months06
Latest release—12.3 · 21 Sept 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Main languageLessPython

Which one should you pick?

Zulip scores 82/100 against 43/100 for quassel-webserver, so it is the safer default.

Zulip ships more often: 6 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for quassel-webserver.

Zulip is growing faster right now (+190 stars in 30 days).

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