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sentora-corevsTypesense

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

sentora-coreTypesense
Score49/10079/100
Rank in category#8 of 10 in Control Panel#6 of 41 in Search Engines
GitHub stars67627 063
Stars, last 30 days+0+470
Stable releases, 12 months04
Latest release—v30.2 · 19 Apr 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Main languagePHPC

Which one should you pick?

Typesense scores 79/100 against 49/100 for sentora-core, so it is the safer default.

Typesense ships more often: 4 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for sentora-core.

If you want the quickest setup, Typesense is easier to run; sentora-core needs more configuration.

Typesense is growing faster right now (+470 stars in 30 days).

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