bittorrent-tracker vs Transmission

Both are self-hosted file transfer - peer-to-peer filesharing projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Transmission scores 69 against bittorrent-tracker's 50, putting it ahead on the strength of a higher commit volume and a larger community. That measures project health, not feature fit — bittorrent-tracker may still be the right choice if it does what you need.

	bittorrent-tracker	Transmission
Health score	50/100	69/100
Commits (11 mo)	19	616
Commits (last 3 mo)	11	42
Stars	1.9k	15k
Latest release	25 May 2026	30 Jun 2026
Licence	MIT	GPL-3.0
Built with	Nodejs	C++, deb
Typical RAM	1 GB	1 GB

bittorrent-tracker

Simple, robust, BitTorrent tracker (client and server) implementation.

50/100

Slowing

Activity has dropped noticeably. Check the repository before committing to it.

Maintenance 4/40

Releases 21/25

Community 10/20

Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 10% of tracked projects; popularity more than 48%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

Transmission

Fast, easy, free Bittorrent client.

69/100

Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 28/40

Releases 21/25

Community 17/20

Momentum 4/15

Commit activity more than 69% of tracked projects; popularity more than 85%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

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