BunkerWeb vs Nginx Proxy Manager

Both are self-hosted web servers projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

BunkerWeb and Nginx Proxy Manager are closely matched on maintenance health (84 vs 82). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
BunkerWebNginx Proxy Manager
Health score 84/100 82/100
Commits (11 mo) 1915 798
Commits (last 3 mo) 494 88
Stars 11k 34k
Latest release 25 Sept 2026 24 Sept 2026
Licence AGPL-3.0 MIT
Built with deb, Docker, K8S, Python Docker
Typical RAM 1 GB 2 GB

BunkerWeb

Next-gen Web Application Firewall (WAF) that will protect your web services.

84/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 35/40
Releases 25/25
Community 16/20
Momentum 8/15

Commit activity more than 88% of tracked projects; popularity more than 80%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 215 commits 2025-11: 164 commits 2025-12: 137 commits 2026-01: 170 commits 2026-02: 152 commits 2026-03: 192 commits 2026-04: 163 commits 2026-05: 228 commits 2026-06: 159 commits 2026-07: 176 commits 2026-08: 159 commits

Nginx Proxy Manager

Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface.

82/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 30/40
Releases 25/25
Community 19/20
Momentum 8/15

Commit activity more than 75% of tracked projects; popularity more than 93%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 65 commits 2025-11: 236 commits 2025-12: 17 commits 2026-01: 128 commits 2026-02: 121 commits 2026-03: 26 commits 2026-04: 11 commits 2026-05: 106 commits 2026-06: 24 commits 2026-07: 4 commits 2026-08: 60 commits

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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