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lux vs Prism-Browser-Community
lux has 31,755 GitHub stars, 3,323 forks, 545 open issues and last shipped 7 months ago. Prism-Browser-Community has 675 stars, 148 forks, 1 open issues and last shipped 7 days ago. lux leads on adoption by 4,604% (31,755 vs 675 stars). lux is written in Go under MIT; Prism-Browser-Community is written in TypeScript under MIT. lux has attracted 10% as many forks as stars, Prism-Browser-Community 22%. Prism-Browser-Community 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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| lux | Prism-Browser-Community | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 32K | ★ 675 |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | Go | TypeScript |
| Last push | 2026-03-29 | 2026-10-03 |
| Forks | ⑂ 3.3K | ⑂ 148 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick lux if
- You weight community size — 32K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick Prism-Browser-Community if
- You want the Prism-Browser-Community feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You evaluated both and Prism-Browser-Community fits your workflow better
About lux
Lux is a video download library and command line tool written in Go, released under the MIT license. It ships as a single lux binary that takes one or more URLs and retrieves the underlying media streams, and it also exposes the downloading logic as a Go library that other programs can embed. The project has existed for roughly nine years and lives in the Go ecosystem, distributed through go install alongside the usual operating system package managers.
About Prism-Browser-Community
Prism Browser Community is a local first, open source multi profile fingerprint browser for people who need to run several isolated browser identities on one machine without sending their cookies or credentials to a third party service.
read the full Prism-Browser-Community overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is lux or Prism-Browser-Community more popular?
lux has 31,755 GitHub stars and Prism-Browser-Community has 675. lux has the larger community by that measure.
Are lux and Prism-Browser-Community free?
Both are open source. lux is licensed under MIT and Prism-Browser-Community under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between lux and Prism-Browser-Community?
lux is written in Go and Prism-Browser-Community 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, lux or Prism-Browser-Community?
Choose lux if you want the larger community (31,755 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose Prism-Browser-Community if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.