Ech0 vs Ghost

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

Ghost scores 98 against Ech0's 74, putting it clearly ahead on the strength of a stronger recent trend and a larger community. That measures project health, not feature fit — Ech0 may still be the right choice if it does what you need.

	Ech0	Ghost
Health score	74/100	98/100
Commits (11 mo)	1974	4802
Commits (last 3 mo)	310	2123
Stars	2.1k	55k
Latest release	28 Aug 2026	22 Sept 2026
Licence	AGPL-3.0	MIT
Built with	Docker, K8S	Nodejs
Typical RAM	1 GB	2 GB

Ech0

Lightweight federated publishing platform focused on personal idea sharing (documentation in Chinese).

74/100

Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 36/40

Releases 25/25

Community 10/20

Momentum 4/15

Commit activity more than 89% of tracked projects; popularity more than 49%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

Ghost

Just a blogging platform.

98/100

Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 39/40

Releases 25/25

Community 19/20

Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 96% of tracked projects; popularity more than 97%. 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.

See every option in this category: self-hosted blogging platforms.