qBittorrent vs slskd

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.

qBittorrent scores 80 against slskd's 74, putting it slightly ahead on the strength of a stronger recent trend and a larger community. That measures project health, not feature fit — slskd may still be the right choice if it does what you need.

	qBittorrent	slskd
Health score	80/100	74/100
Commits (11 mo)	447	1101
Commits (last 3 mo)	160	200
Stars	40k	4k
Latest release	5 Sept 2026	19 Jul 2026
Licence	GPL-2.0	AGPL-3.0
Built with	C++	Docker, C#
Typical RAM	2 GB	2 GB

qBittorrent

Free cross-platform bittorrent client with a feature rich Web UI for remote access.

80/100

Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 24/40

Releases 25/25

Community 19/20

Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 61% of tracked projects; popularity more than 95%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

slskd

A modern client-server application for the Soulseek file sharing network.

74/100

Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 32/40

Releases 25/25

Community 12/20

Momentum 4/15

Commit activity more than 81% of tracked projects; popularity more than 62%. 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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