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Syncthingvsvanilla-cookbook

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

Syncthingvanilla-cookbook
Score90/10046/100
Rank in category#1 of 15 in File Sync#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars89 862158
Stars, last 30 days+952+0
Stable releases, 12 months813
Latest releasev2.1.7 · 21 Oct 2026v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMPL-2.0GPL-3.0
Main languageGoJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

Syncthing scores 90/100 against 46/100 for vanilla-cookbook, so it is the safer default.

vanilla-cookbook ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 8 for Syncthing.

Syncthing is growing faster right now (+952 stars in 30 days).

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