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sdnextvsTraceRoot

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

sdnextTraceRoot
Score71/10058/100
Rank in category#3 of 11 in Image Generation#11 of 51 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars7 3621 124
Stars, last 30 days+16+12
Stable releases, 12 months010
Latest release—v1.3.3 · 27 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseApache-2.0Other
Main languagePythonTypescript

Which one should you pick?

sdnext scores 71/100 against 58/100 for TraceRoot, so it is the safer default.

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

If you want the quickest setup, sdnext is easier to run; TraceRoot needs more configuration.

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