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restic-rest-servervsSingle Server

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

restic-rest-serverSingle Server
Score60/10044/100
Rank in category#18 of 46 in Backup#8 of 11 in Deployment
GitHub stars1 532231
Stars, last 30 days+36—
Stable releases, 12 months02
Latest release—v0.2.0 · 21 Jun 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseBSD-2-ClauseMIT
Main languageGoGo

Which one should you pick?

restic-rest-server scores 60/100 against 44/100 for Single Server, so it is the safer default.

Single Server ships more often: 2 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for restic-rest-server.

If you want the quickest setup, restic-rest-server is easier to run; Single Server needs more configuration.

restic-rest-server is growing faster right now (+36 stars in 30 days).

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