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beszel vs claude-devtools
beszel has 25,541 GitHub stars, 1,025 forks, 313 open issues and last shipped yesterday. claude-devtools has 3,942 stars, 297 forks, 50 open issues and last shipped 4 months ago. beszel leads on adoption by 548% (25,541 vs 3,942 stars). beszel is written in Go under MIT; claude-devtools is written in TypeScript under MIT. beszel has attracted 4% as many forks as stars, claude-devtools 8%. beszel was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| beszel | claude-devtools | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 26K | ★ 3.9K |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | Go | TypeScript |
| Last push | 2026-09-19 | 2026-05-13 |
| Forks | ⑂ 1.0K | ⑂ 297 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick beszel if
- You weight community size — 26K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick claude-devtools if
- You want the claude-devtools feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You evaluated both and claude-devtools fits your workflow better
About beszel
Beszel is a lightweight server monitoring platform written in Go and released under the MIT License. It consists of two components: a hub, which is a web application built on PocketBase and provides the dashboard for viewing and managing connected systems, and an agent, which runs on each system being monitored and communicates system metrics back to the hub. The project lives in the self hosted, homelab oriented monitoring ecosystem, alongside the broader category of Infrastructure and Operations tooling, and it is distributed primarily through Docker images published as henrygd/beszel for the hub and henrygd/be…
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About claude-devtools
claude devtools is a free, MIT licensed TypeScript application — desktop builds plus a Docker service — that reads the Claude Code session logs already stored in /.claude/ and reconstructs them into a visual interface for inspecting tool calls, token usage, subagents, and the context window.
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Frequently asked questions
Is beszel or claude-devtools more popular?
beszel has 25,541 GitHub stars and claude-devtools has 3,942. beszel has the larger community by that measure.
Are beszel and claude-devtools free?
Both are open source. beszel is licensed under MIT and claude-devtools under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between beszel and claude-devtools?
beszel is written in Go and claude-devtools in TypeScript. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, beszel or claude-devtools?
Choose beszel if you want the larger community (25,541 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose claude-devtools if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.