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RomMvsUtopia

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

RomMUtopia
Score81/10057/100
Rank in category#1 of 5 in Emulation#15 of 42 in Knowledge Management
GitHub stars14 1348 598
Stars, last 30 days+978—
Stable releases, 12 months100
Latest release5.4.1 · 22 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languagePythonRust

Which one should you pick?

RomM scores 81/100 against 57/100 for Utopia, so it is the safer default.

RomM ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Utopia.

RomM is growing faster right now (+978 stars in 30 days).

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