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vanilla-cookbookvsVert

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

vanilla-cookbookVert
Score46/10071/100
Rank in category#13 of 18 in Recipe Management#2 of 10 in File Conversion
GitHub stars15816 176
Stars, last 30 days+0+543
Stable releases, 12 months130
Latest releasev1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026—
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseGPL-3.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageJavaScriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

Vert scores 71/100 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 Vert.

Vert is growing faster right now (+543 stars in 30 days).

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