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World MonitorvsYacy

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

World MonitorYacy
Score86/10062/100
Rank in category#5 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#18 of 41 in Search Engines
GitHub stars89 7394 086
Stars, last 30 days+2 400+41
Stable releases, 12 months170
Latest releasev2.11.6 · 25 Oct 2026—
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0Other
Main languageTypescriptJava

Which one should you pick?

World Monitor scores 86/100 against 62/100 for Yacy, so it is the safer default.

World Monitor ships more often: 17 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Yacy.

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

World Monitor is growing faster right now (+2 400 stars in 30 days).

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