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Upptimevsvanilla-cookbook

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

Upptimevanilla-cookbook
Score69/10046/100
Rank in category#3 of 12 in Uptime Monitoring#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars17 185158
Stars, last 30 days+1+0
Stable releases, 12 months013
Latest release—v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Main languageMarkdownJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

Upptime scores 69/100 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 0 for Upptime.

Upptime is growing faster right now (+1 stars in 30 days).

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