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spacepadvsWorld Monitor

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

spacepadWorld Monitor
Score46/10086/100
Rank in category#6 of 8 in Scheduling & Booking#5 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars29689 739
Stars, last 30 days+0+2 400
Stable releases, 12 months1017
Latest releasev1.9.1 · 21 Oct 2026v2.11.6 · 25 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseOtherAGPL-3.0
Main languagePHPTypescript

Which one should you pick?

World Monitor scores 86/100 against 46/100 for spacepad, so it is the safer default.

World Monitor ships more often: 17 stable releases in the past year, against 10 for spacepad.

If you want the quickest setup, spacepad is easier to run; World Monitor needs more configuration.

World Monitor is growing faster right now (+2 400 stars in 30 days).

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