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VisionStatevsWorld Monitor

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

VisionStateWorld Monitor
Score49/10086/100
Rank in category#73 of 104 in Home Automation#5 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars17189 721
Stars, last 30 days+40+2 382
Stable releases, 12 months2017
Latest releasev0.11.0 · 27 Oct 2026v2.11.6 · 25 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonTypescript

Which one should you pick?

World Monitor scores 86/100 against 49/100 for VisionState, so it is the safer default.

VisionState ships more often: 20 stable releases in the past year, against 17 for World Monitor.

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

World Monitor is growing faster right now (+2 382 stars in 30 days).

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