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sdnextvstessera

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

sdnexttessera
Score71/10047/100
Rank in category#3 of 11 in Image Generation#98 of 166 in Developer Tools
GitHub stars7 362314
Stars, last 30 days+16—
Stable releases, 12 months015
Latest release—v0.2.4 · 25 Sept 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonTypescript

Which one should you pick?

sdnext scores 71/100 against 47/100 for tessera, so it is the safer default.

tessera ships more often: 15 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for sdnext.

sdnext is growing faster right now (+16 stars in 30 days).

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