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

trusted-cgiTypesense
Score45/10079/100
Rank in category#4 of 7 in Serverless#6 of 41 in Search Engines
GitHub stars24927 062
Stars, last 30 days—+476
Stable releases, 12 months04
Latest release—v30.2 · 19 Apr 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Main languageGoC

Which one should you pick?

Typesense scores 79/100 against 45/100 for trusted-cgi, so it is the safer default.

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

Typesense is growing faster right now (+476 stars in 30 days).

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